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Trials of China's vaccines make major progress
2020-10-21
No recipient of China's COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use has reported severe adverse effects, and no vaccine recipient who went to work in countries where the pandemic is still ongoing has been infected, officials said on Oct 20.
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COVID-19 vaccine development unaffected by mutation: Chinese official
2020-10-21
Studies have shown that the development of COVID-19 vaccines has not been affected by how the virus has mutated, a Chinese official said on Oct 20.
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Chinese mainland reports no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases
2020-10-20
No new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported Monday across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said on Oct 20.
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184 countries and economies have joined COVAX: WHO chief
2020-10-20
A total of 184 countries and economies have now joined COVAX, an international initiative co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to ensure effective and equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, the WHO chief announced on Oct 19.
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Preliminary results show Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate safe: The Lancet
2020-10-19
A Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate based on the inactivated whole SARS-CoV-2 virus is safe and elicits an antibody response, according to the findings from a small early-phase randomised clinical trial published on Oct 15 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
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Qingdao sets world record in testing 10.8 million swab samples for COVID-19
2020-10-19
Qingdao in East China's Shandong province set a world record by finishing testing on 10.8 million swab samples in 120 hours in the recent fight against the re-emergence of COVID-19, the city's officials said on Oct 18.