People arrive to get a Covid-19 jab at a vaccination centre in Beijing. Chinese authorities aim to have 40 per cent of the population of 1.4 billion immunised by July. Photo: Reuters
People arrive to get a Covid-19 jab at a vaccination centre in Beijing. Chinese authorities aim to have 40 per cent of the population of 1.4 billion immunised by July. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus pandemic
China /  Science

Coronavirus: China may approve BioNTech vaccine in June, report says

  • Authorities expect it to get the go-ahead ‘somewhere in the June time frame’, head of AmCham Shanghai told Bloomberg
  • It could be the first foreign-made Covid-19 jab to be administered in the mainland

Simone McCarthy
Simone McCarthy

Updated: 11:30am, 21 Apr, 2021

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People arrive to get a Covid-19 jab at a vaccination centre in Beijing. Chinese authorities aim to have 40 per cent of the population of 1.4 billion immunised by July. Photo: Reuters
People arrive to get a Covid-19 jab at a vaccination centre in Beijing. Chinese authorities aim to have 40 per cent of the population of 1.4 billion immunised by July. Photo: Reuters
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