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The World Health Organization announced on Friday it had approved a COVID-19 vaccine from China’s state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm for emergency use.<\/p>

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The\u00a0vaccine<\/a>, one of two main Chinese shots that collectively have already been given to hundreds of millions of people in China and abroad, becomes the first\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0shot developed by a non-Western country to win the\u00a0WHO’s backing.<\/p>\n

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It is also the first time the\u00a0WHO<\/a>\u00a0has given emergency use approval to any Chinese vaccine for any infectious disease.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0WHO\u00a0emergency listing is a signal to national regulators on a product’s safety and efficacy, and would allow the shot to be included in COVAX, the global programme to provide vaccines mainly for poor countries.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0WHO\u00a0has previously given emergency approval to COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and, last week, Moderna.<\/p>\n

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