Sudden COVID-19 outbreaks depict lack of efficacy of Chinese vaccines: ReportIn 2021, Indonesia and Brazil reduced the efficacy to 65 per cent and 50.4 per cent. Both nations raised concerns over the major side effec...
27 Dec, 2022, 02.44 PM IST
China's Xi Jinping unwilling to accept vaccines despite threat from protests: U.S. intelU.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum in California, said that despite ...
04 Dec, 2022, 07.22 AM IST
As officials ease restrictions, China faces new pandemic risksThe vaccination gaps in China's older population are all the more glaring because the country has achieved relatively strong coverage overa...
02 Dec, 2022, 04.38 PM IST
China-manufactured vaccines turn out ineffective amid rising COVID-19 casesA study by the University of Hong Kong has lowered the Chinese vaccines' effectiveness further, limiting it to just 60 per cent. It further...
25 Jun, 2022, 03.51 PM IST
Covid-19: China is developing its own mRNA vaccine - and it's showing early promiseThe mRNA vaccines initially generated high levels of protection against getting COVID. And while the protection offered by two doses wanes ...
17 Feb, 2022, 10.07 AM IST
Chinese firm buys Canada mRNA Covid vaccine tech in $500 million dealWhile almost 1 billion people have been fully vaccinated in China, the country is still lacking an mRNA shot, with most of the population i...
14 Sep, 2021, 07.44 AM IST
Antibodies triggered by Chinese COVID-19 shots less effective on Delta variant: ResearcherFive out of the seven domestically developed vaccines in China's mass inoculation scheme are inactivated vaccines. These include shots from...
25 Jun, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
Chinese vaccines' effectiveness low, admits country's top disease control officialThe effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, a Chinese developer, at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to b...
12 Apr, 2021, 09.06 AM IST
Hope first Quad summit is conducive to regional peace, 'not the opposite': ChinaPrime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga ...
10 Mar, 2021, 07.06 PM IST
Chinese vaccines sweep much of the world, despite concernsWith just four of China's many vaccine makers able to produce at least 2.6 billion doses this year, a large part of the world's population ...
02 Mar, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
China rolls out first one-jab COVID-19 vaccine: ReportChina's first Ad5-nCoV COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out on Friday, the state-run Global Times reported on Sunday. It is the only single-dose...
28 Feb, 2021, 05.07 PM IST
Pakistan says China's Sinopharm vaccine not effective for people over 60 yearsChina has said that it is currently conducting field trials for 16 vaccines, while it has so far granted conditional approval to Sinopharm,...
04 Feb, 2021, 10.33 PM IST
As China vaccinates, makers say jab works against mutationsChina is racing to vaccinate millions ahead of the country's Spring Festival travel rush. Pharma giant Sinopharm was given "conditional" ap...
05 Jan, 2021, 01.24 PM IST
Morocco to kick off mass vaccination plan with Chinese drugThe first injections could come within days, a Health Ministry official told The Associated Press. Facing a public skeptical about the vacc...
08 Dec, 2020, 05.37 PM IST
China approves human testing for coronavirus vaccine grown in insect cellsChina is in a global race to develop cost-effective vaccines to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Using insect cells to grow proteins for the cor...
22 Aug, 2020, 07.31 PM IST
Chinese research firm attached to Army first to start 2nd clinical trial for coronavirus vaccineAn adenovirus vector vaccine, developed by a research team led by Major General Chen Wei of the Institute of Military Medicine under the Ac...
16 Apr, 2020, 04.57 PM IST
China's vaccine for coronavirus may be tested abroad: OfficialChina, which is developing a vaccine for the deadly novel coronavirus, plans to conduct additional trials in other countries. The first sta...
01 Apr, 2020, 04.43 PM IST