China grants conditional approval to its first one-shot Covid-19 vaccine


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February 28, 2021 18:59 IST With the latest approval, China's medical products regulator has approved five vaccines against coronavirus. (File representative photo: Reuters) China has given conditional approval for a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine, the world's first vaccine candidate to have entered clinical trials. Phase-I clinical trials of the vaccine started on March 16, last year. Touted to be a rival to Johnson & Johnson's one-jab shot cleared by the US drug regulator, China's first Ad5-nCoV Covid-19 vaccine was rolled out on Friday, the state-run Global Times reported. As per the report, it is the only single-dose Covid-19 vaccine that has...