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Chinese regulators approve Sinovac jab

Chinese regulators approve Sinovac jab

Thai FDA reviewing application from Chinese producer as global vaccinations top 120 million

A health worker prepares to administer Sinovac vaccine at a hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia on Saturday. (AFP Photo)

Chinese drug regulators have given conditional market approval to the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac, a Chinese company that Thailand is counting on to get its stalled vaccination programme off the ground.

The approval came after multiple domestic and overseas trials of CoronaVac in countries including Brazil and Turkey, although “efficacy and safety results need to be further confirmed”, Sinovac said in a statement on Saturday.

The Thai Food and Drug Administration is currently reviewing…

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