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Newshour: 07/05/2021 20:06 GMT: WHO approves China's Sinopharm vaccine

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WHO approves China's Sinopharm vaccine

07/05/2021 20:06 GMT

07/05/2021 20:06 GMT: WHO approves China's Sinopharm vaccine

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Chinese Covid vaccine gets WHO emergency approval

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The World Health Organisation has granted emergency-use status to a coronavirus vaccine produced by China’s state-owned drug maker, Sinopharm. 

It allows countries to authorise their own safety clearance for the two-shot vaccine.  Sinopharm’s drug is one of the two main Chinese vaccines that have already been delivered to hundreds of millions of people in China. The WTO has now backed six coronavirus vaccines; Sinopharm’s is the first by a non-Western country.

Also on the programme: we hear from the Rio de Janeiro favela where a deadly police operation took place; and the Chinese rocket part that’s hurtling back towards earth this weekend

(Picture: Vaccination against COVID-19, Credit: EPA)

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