WHO approves Chinese COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

Published on May 12, 2021

The Sinopharm vaccine is the sixth to receive the EUL approval.  The others are by Pfizer/BioNTech, Astrazeneca-SK Bio, Serum Institute of India, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and Moderna.UN

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