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Hong Kong to offer COVID-19 vaccine for children older than five

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will start offering COVID-19 vaccines for children over the age of five, Chief Executive Carrie...

Published 11 Jan, 2022 10:33am

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Hong Kong authorises Sinovac vaccine for children aged 3-17

HONG KONG: Hong Kong has approved lowering the age limit for the COVID-19 vaccine from China's Sinovac Biotech to...

Published 20 Nov, 2021 12:30pm

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China donates 500,000 more vaccine doses to Syria

DAMASCUS: China donated 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday to war-torn Syria, which has one of the ...

Published 15 Nov, 2021 05:58am

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PIA airlifts 15m doses of Sinovac vaccines from China

BEIJING: As many as five special flights of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have transported 15 million doses...

Published 03 Nov, 2021 03:54am

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PIA airlifts another 12m doses of Sinovac vaccine

BEIJING: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) special flights have airlifted fresh batch of 12 million doses of...

Published 30 Aug, 2021 06:33am

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2m doses of Sinovac vaccine flown in from China

ISLAMABAD: Two million more doses of China's Sinovac vaccine reached Pakistan on Saturday, according to the National...

Published 22 Aug, 2021 02:33am

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Chinese drugmakers agree to supply more than half a billion vaccines to COVAX

"The agreements, which come at a time when the Delta variant is posing a rising risk to health systems, will begin to make 110 million doses immediately available to participants of the COVAX Facility, with options for additional doses," GAVI said.

Published 12 Jul, 2021 06:41pm

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PIA special plane airlifts 2m doses of corona vaccine from China

BEIJING: A special plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) PK-6853 airlifted two million doses of Sinovac...

Published 07 Jul, 2021 04:28am

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Covid-19 vaccines: 17m doses procured on payment out of 21.13m received, NCOC told

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday was apprised that the country so far had...

Published 30 Jun, 2021 03:54am

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PIA airlifts 1.55m vaccine doses from China

ISLAMABAD: A special plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carrying 1.55 million doses of the Sinovac...

Published 21 Jun, 2021 03:43am

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Sinovac vaccine gains China approval for emergency use in children, adolescents

BEIJING: China has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine in people aged between three and...

Published 06 Jun, 2021 02:56am

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PIA airlifts more 2m doses of Sinovac vaccine from China

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)'s special flight PK6853 airlifted another batch of two millions...

Published 24 May, 2021 04:03am

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PIA transports 1m doses of Sinovac vaccine

BEIJING: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight 6852 Sunday transported a batch of one million doses of ...

Published 17 May, 2021 06:14am

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Country to get another batch of China’s vaccines today

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will receive another batch of Covid vaccine from China on May 16 comprising 1.2 million doses....

Published 16 May, 2021 04:26am

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PIA transports 1m doses of Sinovac vaccine to Pakistan

BEIJING: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight No.6852 carrying a batch of one million doses of Sinovac...

Updated 10 May, 2021 10:17am

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Erdogan says Turkey expects more COVID-19 vaccine supplies soon

Turkey has so far been using vaccines developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd and by Pfizer and BioNTech .
It has carried out nearly 23 million inoculations, with 13.7 million people, or 16% of the population, having received at least one dose.

Published 30 Apr, 2021 06:05pm

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Ukraine approves Chinese vaccine as COVID-19 cases hit new record high

Ukraine received its first batch of 215,000 Sinovac doses in March to boost its vaccination programme, which has lagged behind many other European countries and it has so far relied on a single batch of AstraZeneca vaccines from India.
"The vaccines of the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech can be trusted," it said.

Published 03 Apr, 2021 06:41pm

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Turkey begins administering Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 shots

Turkey has so far delivered 16.5 million vaccine doses nationwide, including more than 7 million people who have received a second dose of the shots developed by China's Sinovac Biotech.
A total of 2.8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine have arrived in Turkey, with that number expected to reach 4.5 million in the coming days, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday.

Published 02 Apr, 2021 06:21pm

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Mexico gets shipment of million vaccine doses from China's Sinovac

Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said earlier in the week that Mexico was upping its orders from China to make up for a vaccine shortfall and would request 22 million more doses.
Mexico ordered an additional 10 million doses of Sinovac, in addition to the previously ordered 10 million doses, which are due to arrive between March and May.

Updated 13 Mar, 2021 09:10pm

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Mexico to buy 22mn more doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccines

Ebrard said Mexico has put in an order for an additional 10 million doses of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to be delivered between May and July, on top of the 10 million already ordered, which are due to arrive between March and May.

Published 09 Mar, 2021 09:13pm

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Ukraine approves China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine

Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Lekhim - one of Sinovac's partners - has an agreement with the manufacturer to deliver 5 million doses of the vaccine in Ukraine, including 1.9 million via a state procurement scheme.
Ukraine started COVID-19 vaccinations in late February but only 19,118 first shots had been given by March 9.

Updated 09 Mar, 2021 09:31pm

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Malaysia approves Sinovac, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for use

Malaysia began its vaccination drive on Feb. 24 using a shot developed by US drugmaker Pfizer and German partner BioNTech, as it tries to rein in a spike in infections and help revive an economy that recorded its worst slump in more than two decades last year.
Sinovac signed a deal with Malaysia's Pharmaniaga, which will carry out a fill-and-finish process for the vaccine's distribution in Malaysia, before later manufacturing it locally.

Published 02 Mar, 2021 07:17pm

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Hong Kong advisory panel approves China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

Hong Kong's government said in early February that it was exempting Chinese drug maker Sinovac from publishing results of its third phase clinical trials in medical journals due to the "urgency" for vaccination.
The city's Health Secretary Sophia Chan has the final decision on whether to approve the Sinovac vaccine.

Published 16 Feb, 2021 05:53pm

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Mexico looking into getting Sinovac vaccine, minister says

Mexican officials had communicated with colleagues in Chile last week to get feedback on the Sinovac vaccine, and would also do so with Colombia's health ministry later on Tuesday.

Updated 09 Feb, 2021 11:31pm

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Sinovac's Ukrainian partner seeks to delay COVID-19 vaccine shipments: letter

The importer, Ukraine-based Lekhim, cited delays in obtaining an export licence from the Chinese government and the late adoption by Ukraine's parliament of a special vaccine registration law.
Lekhim, which has a deal to deliver 1.9 million doses to the Ukraine government from March.

Published 09 Feb, 2021 06:15pm

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Brazil to buy 20mn more doses of China's CoronaVac, governor says

The order, which has not been previously reported, will come on top of the 100 million doses of the vaccine.
Doria, governor of the country's wealthiest and most populous state, has been the driving force behind CoronaVac's testing and rollout in Brazil.

Published 05 Feb, 2021 05:38pm

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Turkey's vaccine blitz tops 500,000 on second day of rollout

Ankara launched the nationwide programme on Thursday, vaccinating health workers first, and inoculated more than 285,000 people on the first day.
We are an experienced country in implementing nationwide inoculation programmes.

Published 15 Jan, 2021 05:27pm

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Health workers first in line as Turkey launches Sinovac vaccine rollout

Turkey has reported more than 2.3 million infections since March and still reports around 10,000 new cases and 170 deaths each day after a month of weekend lockdowns and nightly curfews.
We spent around 10 months in white overalls, supporting people as they struggle for life. Health workers know very well that this situation cannot be taken lightly and that the vaccine is needed.

Published 14 Jan, 2021 07:26pm

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Brazil's Bolsonaro says he was right to question Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

This 50% is good, is it? All the (criticism) I got for my comments, and now they are seeing the truth. Four months of being lambasted because of the vaccine.
Brazil's government closed a deal with the Butantan Institute to buy up to 100 million doses of the Chinese vaccine.

Published 13 Jan, 2021 08:41pm

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Singapore says ramping up COVID-19 vaccination drive

Singapore started vaccinating healthcare workers on Dec. 30, becoming one of the first Asian countries to start its coronavirus inoculation programme.
The nation of 5.7 million people has been reporting relatively very few local cases in recent months and fatalities are among the world's lowest

Published 13 Jan, 2021 06:08pm