Covid-19: in China 600 million doses of ready-to-use vaccines

The China National Biotec Group and Sinovac Biotech laboratories offer inactivated vaccines, with a virus killed in the laboratory with perhaps reduced efficiency, such as side effects.

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In China, 600 million doses of vaccine are ready for use this year.

An announcement made on Friday by the deputy head of the group of experts responsible for the development of Chinese vaccines from Wuhan, where the Covid-19 pandemic was discovered last winter.

Everything is ready to believe Chinese officials who promise a "major announcement" before the end of the month. 

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For several days, pharmaceutical companies in China have been saying that you have to be patient but that the announcements are imminent.

Soon, Chinese vaccine candidates will be able to apply for their release on the market.

Wang Junzhi's announcement only confirms this.

The 600 million doses spoken of by number two in vaccine development in China could be provided in particular by the China National Biotec Group and Sinovac Biotech.

Both offer inactivated vaccines, with a virus killed in the laboratory with perhaps reduced efficiency, such as side effects.

To be ready to mass-produce is also what Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chunlan asked manufacturers on Thursday with a view to launching a global campaign.

Because it is a question of image for Beijing.

After the diplomacy of masks, those of vaccines.

China wants to make people forget the ignition delay at the start of the pandemic, by helping to put an end to it.

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Provide Chinese testing partner countries first 

Five Chinese vaccine candidates have reached phase 3, thanks to trials in more than 15 countries.

Last spring, President Xi Jinping announced at the annual meeting of the General Assembly of the World Health Organization that the Chinese vaccine would be a " 

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On the other hand, there is no question of vaccinating for free, it is a matter of providing as a priority the partner countries which have hosted the Chinese trials, the friends of China, and in particular the developing countries.

Like this second delivery of 600 liters of Sinovacs vaccine to Brazil on Thursday.  

Cargo planes wait in front of the refrigerated hangars of Chinese terminals on the east coast, ready to transport hundreds of millions of doses to South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, even if it means serving as a second step. whole of China where the virus is contained.

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600 liters of Chinese producer Sinovac's #coronavirus #vaccine has arrived in Brazil.

Sao Paulo's governor Joao Doria was at the airport to receive the shipment.

It is the second batch of the Chinese vaccine after 120,000 doses arrived in November.

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- Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 3, 2020

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