China's Sinopharm offered experimental vaccine to students going abroad – reports
by Lily Kuo in Beijing and agencies from Science | The Guardian on (#594GM)
State media reported the company was offering its vaccines to students in Beijing and Wuhan but that the trial had been suspended
A division of China's state-run pharmaceutical group Sinopharm is reportedly offering experimental Covid-19 vaccines to Chinese students going abroad.
China National Biotec Group Co, part of Sinopharm which has two vaccines in development, was offering them free to Chinese students this week, the Wall Street Journal reported. A company website said 481,613 people had taken the vaccine while an additional 93,653 had applied to be inoculated as of Monday.
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