View: There's a way out of the vaccine crunch India faces: Dial ChinaPoliticians of all hues will find it hard to suddenly advocate vaccines from Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech Ltd. Yet what can be a bigger na...
28 May, 2021, 09.50 AM IST
Indonesia study finds China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in health workersThe preliminary study was done from data on healthcare workers in the Indonesian capital Jakarta who had received the CoronaVac vaccine bet...
12 May, 2021, 01.09 PM IST
Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine effective but some data lacking - WHO expertsThe assessment came shortly after WHO SAGE experts had voiced "very low confidence" in data provided by Chinese state-owned drugmaker Sinop...
05 May, 2021, 08.54 PM IST
CanSinoBIO offered tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to COVAX: ExecutiveChina has four locally developed COVID-19 vaccines approved for public use and pledged earlier to supply 10 million doses to COVAX without ...
25 Mar, 2021, 02.04 PM IST
Sinovac vaccine may not trigger sufficient antibody response to Brazil variant, says studyThe emergence of variants of the new coronavirus has raised concern that vaccines and treatments that were developed based on previous stra...
05 Mar, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
China approves 16 locally-made COVID-19 vaccines for clinical trialsChina has already given conditional approval to two inactivated COVID-19 vaccines made by state-owned developers -- Sinopharm and Sinovac B...
21 Feb, 2021, 03.32 PM IST
China gives approval for broader use of Sinovac vaccineRegulators gave conditional approval for Sinovac Biotech Ltd's shot, CoronaVac, on Friday, clearing the way for general use, The National M...
06 Feb, 2021, 05.59 PM IST
China's COVID-19 vaccine makers apply to join COVAX schemeThe COVAX scheme - led by the World Health Organization and GAVI vaccine alliance - is due to start rolling out vaccines to poor and middle...
20 Jan, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
China to vaccinate 50 million people for Lunar New Year - SCMPChina has granted emergency-use status to two candidate vaccines from Sinopharm and one from Sinovac Biotech. It has approved a fourth, fro...
18 Dec, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
Indonesia receives first COVID vaccine from China's SinovacIndonesian President Joko Widodo said in an online briefing that the Southeast Asian country received 1.2 million doses from China's Sinova...
06 Dec, 2020, 10.17 PM IST
Bangladesh signs deal with India for 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccineBangladesh health minister Zahid Maleque said 5 million doses of vaccine per month would be purchased through Bangladesh's drug maker, Bexi...
05 Nov, 2020, 05.36 PM IST
Chinese pharmaceutical firm seeks Bangladesh co-finance for COVID-19 vaccine trialsIn a letter to the Bangladesh government on September 22, Beijing headquartered Sinovac Biotech said the phase 3 trials of the vaccine they...
04 Oct, 2020, 08.10 PM IST
Chinese firm refuses to honour pact on sharing Covid-19 vaccine tech with BangladeshSinovac Biotech Ltd in a letter on September 24 said the trial would be delayed unless the Bangladesh government provided funds, although t...
03 Oct, 2020, 10.46 PM IST
WHO says working with China on requirements for COVID-19 vaccine approval"WHO's office in China and WHO headquarters has been working with the regulatory authorities in China," assistant director-general Mariange...
07 Sep, 2020, 09.36 PM IST
Dhaka pushes back; yet to take final call on use of Chinese vaccine on Covid patientsThis statement is significant following Beijings decision to use Bangladesh as a laboratory. There are reports that China’s decision to con...
22 Jul, 2020, 05.54 PM IST
Chinese drugmaker in talks to test virus vaccine globallyWith China having largely curbed its growth of new infections, its drugmakers will need to seek international cooperation to test their vac...
08 May, 2020, 11.07 PM IST
'Don't waste a minute': Chinese firm readies mass vaccine productionSinovac Biotech, which is conducting one of the four clinical trials that have been authorised in China, has claimed great progress in its ...
30 Apr, 2020, 11.22 AM IST