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The World Health Organization announced on Thursday that it has granted emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine made by China ’s CanSino Biologics, the 11th of its kind to receive the go-ahead. The United Nations health agency said the single-dose CanSino vaccine was found to be about 92% effective against severe COVID-19 and 64% effective at preventing people from developing symptoms of the disease. The WHO vaccination expert group recommended applying it to all people aged 18 and older. CanSino’s vaccine uses a harmless virus called adenovirus to introduce the spike protein of the coronavirus into the body, which...
