WHO experts voice "very low confidence" in some Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine data"We are very confident that 2 doses of BBIBP-CorV are efficacious in preventing PCR confirmed COVID19 in adults (18-59 years)," the documen...
05 May, 2021, 04.32 PM IST
Bangladesh allows emergency use of Chinese vaccine amidst delay from India's SIIDirectorate General of Drug Administration Major General Mahbubur Rahman told reporters here that the Bangladesh government has issued the ...
29 Apr, 2021, 06.33 PM IST
Sinopharm to inject Rs 4.6 billion vaccine assets into unit Tiantan BiologicalSinopharm aims to begin the injection of six vaccine-focused biological products developers including makers of two COVID-19 vaccines into ...
16 Apr, 2021, 11.07 AM IST
China-Lanka ties may touch low over Beijing made vaccinesLast month, Colombo had placed an order for 7 million doses of the Sputnik vaccine at $69.65 million. These are on top of 13.5 million dose...
07 Apr, 2021, 11.04 PM IST
Sri Lanka prefers Indian and Russian vaccines over Chinese vaccine giftThe Lankan cabinet announced on Tuesday that the government decided to buy an additional six million doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V va...
06 Apr, 2021, 10.32 PM IST
New Abu Dhabi plant to produce COVID-19 vaccine from China's SinopharmThe plant, which is being built in the Khalifa Industrial Zone of Abu Dhabi (KIZAD), will eventually have a production capacity of 200 mill...
29 Mar, 2021, 12.37 PM IST
Alleged Chinese hand: Sri Lanka approves Sinopharm vaccine for emergency useThe approval was granted by National Medicines Regulatory Authority, State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals...
20 Mar, 2021, 12.34 PM IST
China's COVID-19 vaccine production capacity may cover 40% of population by mid-2021: Disease control headThe country's production capacity may also be large enough to allow 70%-80% of its 1.4 billion population to be vaccinated by the beginning...
05 Mar, 2021, 07.34 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
Pakistan approves Chinese anti-COVID vaccine Sinopharm for emergency useDRAP approved the vaccine on Monday, two days after it had approved the emergency use of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
19 Jan, 2021, 04.00 PM IST
Etihad Airways Group CEO starts 2021 with a shot in the armTony Douglas received his first dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine on January 4.
08 Jan, 2021, 05.33 PM IST
China okays first homegrown vaccine for coronavirusSinopharm says preliminary data from last-stage trials had shown the vaccine to be 79.3% effective. Experts say data such as the size of th...
31 Dec, 2020, 07.59 PM IST
Pakistan to purchase 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's SinopharmChina approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by an affiliate of state-backed pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm on Thursday, its first approved ...
31 Dec, 2020, 11.59 AM IST
China grants conditional approval to its homegrown COVID-19 vaccineThe approval comes a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine showed 79.34 per cent efficacy and a 99.52 per cent antibody-positive conversion ...
31 Dec, 2020, 11.33 AM IST
UAE starts Covid-19 vaccinations in capitalThe wealthy Gulf nation is one of the first countries to start widespread inoculation, after Britain became the first to roll out a campaig...
14 Dec, 2020, 05.02 PM IST
UAE says Chinese vaccine 86% effective, offers few detailsThe UAE, home to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, conducted a trial beginning in September of the vaccine by Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant S...
09 Dec, 2020, 07.28 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