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It may not be long before the range of vaccines available to Antiguans and Barbudans grows from the single brand currently available to three from which they can, as the saying goes, \u2018pick and choose.\u2019<\/p>

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has indicated that apart from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which has so far monopolised the field, the Russian-manufactured Sputnik V and China\u2019s SinoPharm could soon be in the mix as well.<\/p>\n

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His comments on Saturday during his weekly radio programme, The Browne and Browne Show on\u00a0PointeFM 99.1<\/strong>, came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) endorsed SinoPharm \u2013 the first non-Western-made vaccine to receive the UN agency\u2019s nod.<\/p>

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WHO approval of SinoPharm now paves the way for Antigua and Barbuda to acquire the vaccine via the UN-brokered Covax Facility \u2013 through which AstraZeneca supplies were also procured \u2013 but also bilaterally from Beijing, with which St. John\u2019s enjoys excellent and very long-standing relations.<\/p>

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Said the Prime Minister: \u201cWe got an undertaking \u2013 a gift, or a promise of a gift \u2013 for twenty thousand vaccines from the People\u2019s Republic of China three months ago, but had neither authority to import nor authority for use. Now that the Chinese vaccine has been approved by the WHO \u2026 in fact it has been communicated to me that next week we will get the formal approval to import and approval for use \u2013 so we will then forward that to the Chinese Embassy here for onward transmission to their capital \u2026 I\u2019m hoping that arrangements could be made now to have the vaccines shipped.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further pointed out that, \u201cWe could not have accepted them [the vaccines from China] because we didn\u2019t have the approval. And we keep saying to these individuals [responsible for granting approval] \u2026 let\u2019s get the vaccines in, because by the time we wait for WHO to approve these vaccines, then they become inaccessible and that has been the problem that has been plaguing us for the last several months.\u201d<\/p>

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Referring to what he termed \u201cthose conservative decisions that have been taken,\u201d PM Browne disclosed that, \u201cWe even said to them \u2018give us the authority to import, and then we can even hold them in storage for a month or so, with the hope that within the month you would get the approval.\u2019 But the Chinese did say to us at the time that they wanted the authorisation for use, because the last thing they wanted to do was to give us a gift of twenty thousand vaccines and then they waste them and expire after a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said he is \u201chappy that WHO at least approved it [the SinoPharm vaccine] and we should get [the] twenty thousand [doses] shortly \u2013 if they are still available; I hope they are, because everybody is rushing globally now to get these vaccines.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Shelton Daniel \/ Pointe FM<\/em><\/p>

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It may not be long before the range of vaccines available to Antiguans and Barbudans grows from the single brand currently available to three from which they can, as the saying goes, \u2018pick and choose.\u2019 Prime Minister Gaston Browne has indicated that apart from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which has so far monopolised the field, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"\nChinese SinoPharm vaccine approved for use in Antigua - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese SinoPharm vaccine approved for use in Antigua\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It may not be long before the range of vaccines available to Antiguans and Barbudans grows from the single brand currently available to three from which they can, as the saying goes, \u2018pick and choose.\u2019 Prime Minister Gaston Browne has indicated that apart from the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which has so far monopolised the field, the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-10T12:53:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Chinesevaccine.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"860\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"573\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Chinese SinoPharm vaccine approved for use in Antigua\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-10T12:53:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-10T12:53:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/\"},\"wordCount\":481,\"commentCount\":12,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:860\/h:573\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Chinesevaccine.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Health\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/chinese-sinopharm-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-antigua\/\",\"name\":\"Chinese SinoPharm vaccine approved for use in Antigua - 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