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WHO approved the use of Sinopharm vaccine Xu Shuchang: Weikexing vaccine will also be approved and will be announced next week

2021-05-09T18:54:55.297Z


The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it has granted an emergency use authorization to China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, which is the first Chinese-made vaccine approved for use by the WHO. As for the Kexing vaccine currently in use in Hong Kong, the WHO requires Kexing to request


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Written by: Zheng Cuibi

2021-05-08 09:43

Last update date: 2021-05-08 09:45

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it has granted an emergency use authorization to China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, which is the first Chinese-made vaccine approved for use by the WHO.

As for the Kexing vaccine currently in use in Hong Kong, the WHO requires Kexing to provide more information, hoping to receive the data in the short term.

Xu Shuchang, a government expert consultant and chair professor of the Department of Respiratory Diseases of the Chinese University, said on a radio program today (8th) that he believes that the Kexing vaccine can also meet the requirements of the WHO and will be approved for use. The results are expected to be announced next week.

Xu Shuchang.

(Data Picture / Photo by Yu Junliang)

Xu Shuchang said on the business program "Political and Economic Saturday" that the WHO has also reviewed the use of Kexing vaccines and believes that the results will be announced next week. He estimated that because Kexing vaccines meet the requirements of the WHO, the protection rate exceeds 50% and is approved. The opportunity to use is great.

In addition, he said that if foreign countries abandon the intellectual property patent of the new crown vaccine, other countries can produce the vaccine on their own, which can be produced in large quantities in a short period of time, which is helpful to the control of the epidemic. However, some countries think it is a matter of principle and object, because if the patent is abandoned , There is no incentive for pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines.

However, he also pointed out that developing countries do not have large refrigerators and it is more difficult to produce high-tech nucleic acid vaccines on their own. Even if foreign countries give up their patents, it may not be of great help.

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