Sinopharm recipients have to take booster shots before September 20

Highlights

• People who have received two doses of Sinopharm have to take a booster dose
• Without booster dose, entry banned in malls, schools and gym

On Sunday, the government of United Arab Emirates asked all its citi...

ASTRAZENECA TAD INEFFECTIVE AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN CORONAVIRUS VARIANT

• The world is caught between two poles one being a race with spread of coronavirus variants and the other being inoculating millions.
•  AstraZeneca candidly announced Saturday that early data shows its vaccine has restricted potential and hence limited protection against mil...

CHINA GIVES NOD FOR SINOVAC VACCINE ADMINISTRATION ON BROADER SCALE

• China has given wider approval for the home-grown Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, widening its base for those who can receive it beyond the high-risk and important groups already given permission under an emergency clearance.
• Regulators had given limited approval for Sinovac Biote...

CHINA APPREHENDS 80 PEOPLE IN SPURIOUS VACCINE SYNDICATE CLAMPDOWN

• China has admitted it is coming down heavily on a crime ring making "fake vaccines" for Covid-19 that has been in the running since September, state media report has said.
• Police departments in Jiangsu, Beijing and Shandong have  apprehended more than 80 people i...

HONG KONG CORONAVIRUS TESTING IN FULL SPREE AS CASES ARE RISING; SINOPHARM LAUNCHED IN MARKET 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Occupants of three house structures were wrongly advised to go through mandatory Covid testing. It comes as the city announced 68 cases on Thursday, 62 of which were local cases – 18 cases had no origins

The public authority de...

CHINA ON WARPATH TO LAUNCH COVID-19 VACCINES IN AND ACROSS BORDERS

• District governments across China are busy placing orders for experimental, home-grown coronavirus vaccines, though health officials are yet unsure of their performance or have a question mark to their accessibility by the country’s 1.4 billion people
• Developers are accel...

I MILLION CHINESE ADMINISTERED SINOPHARM VACCINE WITH NOTHING GONE AMISS

• Almost 1 million Chinese have been injected with an experiental Covid-19 vaccine developed by the state-owned Sinopharm under the government’s emergency use scheme, the company’s chairman said.
• China is one of just two countries, along with Russia, known to have use...

CHINA’S COVID-19 VACCINES ON DISPLAY AFTER SOME HULLABALOO

• China has showcased its homegrown coronavirus vaccines for the first time, as the country where the contagion originated looks to bring some semblance to the narrative surrounding the pandemic.
• High hopes dangle on the small encased droplets of liquid put on show at a Beijing t...

COVID-19 VACCINE FROM CHINA CLEARED ANIMAL TESTS

Highlights:

• China’s Sinopharm has reported positive results from animal tests. 
• The vaccine has been developed from an inactivated form of the virus, which will induce high levels of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in rabbits, ro...