WHO approves emergency use of Chinese coronavirus vaccine Sinopharm


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WHO approves emergency use of Chinese coronavirus vaccine Sinopharm The World Health Organization (WHO) approved this Friday the emergency use of the vaccine against covid-19 manufactured by the Chinese company Sinopharm. It is the first vaccine developed by a non-Western country that is endorsed by the WHO. The vaccine has already been administered to millions of people in China and elsewhere. The WHO had only approved vaccines made by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna . But health authorities in several countries, especially the poorest in Africa, Latin America and Asia, had already authorized the Chinese vaccine for emergency...