Chinese vaccine firms to rush 110 million doses to Covax now, half a billion by mid-2022

A global sharing scheme has contracted two Chinese manufacturers to immediately supply 110 million coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer countries as part of an advance purchase agreement.The agreements with Sinopharm and Sinovac – which have been validated by the World Health Organization for emergency use – come as the Delta variant, a more transmissible strain expected to become dominant globally, poses a rising risk to health systems.The purchase agreements are expected to make up the…

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