Focus on China’s competing Covid vaccines



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Chinese authorities have already approved multiple Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use in the country, and nearly a million Chinese have already been vaccinated with one candidate.

Several local governments are already placing orders for domestically developed vaccines, although the Chinese government has not confirmed how many people it intends to vaccinate as part of the emergency approval.

The first international shipments of the vaccine, from the private Chinese company Sinovac, also arrived in Indonesia this week in preparation for a mass vaccination campaign ahead of expected local approval.

China is developing at least five Covid-19 vaccines from four producers. These vaccines, which have been developed very quickly, are largely based on traditional vaccine manufacturing techniques, such as inactivation of the virus.

These methods provide some benefits to vaccines over others. For example, some of the vaccines developed in China can be stored in normal refrigerators, which makes distribution easier. This is in contrast to the Pfizer jab, which should be kept around -70 degrees Celsius.

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