Breaking! China's COVID-19 vaccine officially launched!
On Dec. 31, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council announced that China’s COVID-19 inactivated vaccine developed by Sinopharm has been approved by the National Food & Drug Administration for being conditionally launched. The available data show its protection rate is 79.34%, achieving the unity of safety, effectiveness, accessibility, and affordability, and meeting the relevant standards of the World Health Organization and the National Food & Drug Administration. In the future, the immune persistence and protective effect of vaccine need to be continuously observed. It’s a hard-won achievement. The launching of Chinese vaccine will inject confidence to the global people for winning the battle against the pandemic, also provide strong support for making vaccine a global public product.
The article is sourced from "CCTV News"