China’s CanSino Covid-19 vaccine wins emergency approval in Mexico

Mexico has become the first country to give emergency use approval to the single-shot Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese company CanSino Biologics and People’s Liberation Army scientists.Approval was granted as Mexico scrambles to avoid a shortage of vaccines, with Pfizer/BioNTech and Russian Sputnik supplies not expected to arrive until later this month, throwing the country’s vaccination programme into disarray. So far, Mexico has received 760,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, with just 89…

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