The president of China National Pharmaceutical Industries (Sino Pharm) said that the Coronavirus vaccine will be commercially available by the end of the year.
According to ArabiaNet, Liu Jing Chen, the company's president, explained to a newspaper affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party that the vaccine would cost less than 1,000 yuan ($ 140), and it would be given in Two doses every 28 days.
He added that students and workers in major cities will need to get vaccinated, but not those who live in sparsely populated rural areas.
He stated in an interview published today, Tuesday, by the Guangming Daily: Not all 1.4 billion people in our country should receive the vaccine.
"Sinopharma, which has two vaccines under trial, has an annual manufacturing capacity of 220 million doses," Liu said.
Liu, who is also the company's Communist Party secretary, told the newspaper that the company had injected him with the vaccine.
reports that Chinese researchers and executives have received vaccines have raised questions in some scientific circles about the ethics of this.
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