Tag: Sinopharm

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 14:00 UTC

  Argentine health ministers support national gov't's decision to vaccinate children

  

  Health Ministers of jurisdictions other than the federal government have lined up together behind their national colleague Carla Vizzotti after the latter was accused of lying when she recommended vaccinating children aged 3 to 11 with Sinopharm.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Argentine health authorities finally set a date for COVID-19 vaccination of children aged 3 to 11

  

  Argentina will start on October 12 vaccinating children aged between 3 and 11 who have other underlying conditions against COVID-19. Local health authorities have chosen the Sinopharm drug for the campaign.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Sinopharm's COVID-19 drug good for children aged 3 to 11, Argentine health authorities say

  

  Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Friday announced the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine had been approved for use on children aged 3 to 11.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:10 UTC

  Top Argentine health official sees covid-19 vaccination of children “imminent”

  

  The Minister of Health of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires Sunday said other anticovid-19 vaccines were understudy to be used on children aged 3 to 18 in addition to the Pfizer drug.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 13:29 UTC

  Argentina receives 904,000 doses of China's Sinopharm vaccine

  

  Argentina has received 904,000 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in its first delivery from the Chinese drugmaker, the government said on Thursday, which should help the country accelerate its inoculation program.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina authorizes emergency use of Sinopharm's vaccine; one million doses expected

  

  ANMAT, Argentina’s drug regulator has authorized the emergency use of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine ahead of an expected delivery of 1 million doses of the Chinese-made jab.

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Scandal and frustration in Peru: 487 officials secretly received early Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Peruvian interim president announced Monday night that 487 officials took part in the so-called “vacunagate” by taking advantage of their privileged positions to secretly receive early inoculations of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine that the government then bought for doctors and other health workers battling the pandemic. The list includes the former ministers of foreign affairs and health and the former president.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Some 47 Chinese workers in Uganda inoculated with the Sinopharm vaccine allegedly tested positive

  

  Despite apparently being inoculated with China's vaunted coronavirus vaccines, 47 Chinese workers in Uganda have been diagnosed with the virus, raising questions about the efficacy of the China-made products.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Peru suspends trials with China's Covid-19 vaccine due to a “serious adverse event”

  

  Peru suspended trials for China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine due to a “serious adverse event” that occurred with one of the volunteers for the study, the Peruvian government said in a statement on Saturday.

• Thursday, July 30th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  South Brazil state signs with Chinese drug company a Covid-19 vaccine trial

  

  Chinese drug company Sinopharm and Parana state have agreed to launch the fourth major COVID-19 vaccine trial in Brazil and will seek regulatory approval in the next two weeks, the Brazilian partners said on Wednesday.