'No need to panic,' China official says of coronavirus variants

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 Quote: d as saying on Friday (Jan 1). The shot by an affiliate of state-backed company Sinopharm was approved on Thursday, the day after news of China’s first imported case of a variant spreading in Britain. READ: China gives its first COVID-19 vaccine approval to Sinopharm “No need to panic,” Xu Wenbo, an official at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told state TV. “The mutated variant, compared…