Chinese official assures vaccineࢀ™s efficacy against Covid variants

Chinese official assures vaccineࢀ™s efficacy against Covid variants 10:32 PM BEIJING: There is no sign new coronavirus variants will affect the immune impact of a vaccine that China has just authorised for public use, a disease control official was quoted as saying on Friday. The shot by an affiliate of state-backed company Sinopharm was approved on Thursday, the day after news of Chinaࢀ™s first imported case of a variant spreading in Britain. ࢀœNo need to panic,ࢀ Xu Wenbo, an official at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told state TV. ࢀœThe mutated variant, compared with previous mutated…