Philippines, china's vaccine guinea pig.

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    Coronavirus - China closes in on a vaccine, says it'll use access to it strategically

    Tue 18 Aug 2020 02:46:18 GMT
    Author:Eamonn Sheridan | Category: News


    The Wall Street Journal with the report on priority access to a Chinese vaccine, which is said to be close.

    • Beijing's top officials and some of its drugmakers have begun promising early access to countries of strategic interest
    • China's Foreign Ministry has promised the Philippines priority access to a Chinese vaccine
    • Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech Ltd. has agreed to work with Brazil and Indonesia to produce hundreds of millions of doses of its vaccine candidate for local use
    • Pakistan would receive doses to distribute to roughly one-fifth of its population of 220 million, under a deal that allows China National Pharmaceutical Group, also known as Sinopharm, to conduct clinical trials there
    • Russia may produce a vaccine developed by China's military and China-based CanSino Biologics

 
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