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TopicSinopharm

Topic: Sinopharm

China’s Sinopharm vaccine gets a seal of approval as JAMA publishes study of its success

The study says the two inactivated vaccines developed by Sinopharm prevented symptomatic infections by 72.8% & 78.1%, largely in-line with what the drugmaker previously announced.

With India & US stumbling, the world is turning to China for vaccines

Demand is expected to rise if WHO authorises China’s Sinovac & Sinopharm vaccines, allowing developing countries in Asia, Africa & Latin America to access them through Covax.

China opens mass domestic Covid inoculation drive to diplomats, foreign journalists

A notice issued to foreign journalists in Beijing Wednesday said they can get the Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine, developed by Sinopharm's China National Biotec Group.

Chinese Covid vaccine maker CanSino to offer Pakistan 20 million doses

CanSino has applied for regulatory approval in Pakistan and will be give the country preferential access to the single-shot vaccine. Pakistan is yet to start its vaccination drive.

Bahrain approves registration of China’s Covid vaccine Sinopharm

The vaccine has already been administered to hundreds of thousands of people under emergency authorization in China, but it’s yet to receive public use approval from any drug regulators.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.