China is Giving Unproven Covid-19 Vaccines to Thousands of Essential Workers, With Risks Unknown

An employee answers questions from the public near samples of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm subsidiary CNBG during a trade fair in Beijing on September 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

The world still lacks a proven coronavirus vaccine, but that has not stopped Chinese officials from trying to inoculate tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people outside the traditional testing process.

  • New York Times
  • Last Updated: September 27, 2020, 5:51 PM IST

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First, workers at state-owned companies got dosed. Then government officials and vaccine company staff. Up next: teachers, supermarket employees and people traveling to risky areas abroad.

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