BEIJING: China granted emergency use authorisation to Livzon Pharmaceutical Group's COVID-19 vaccine as a booster, the firm said on Friday (Sep 2), marking one of the two new products against the disease the country cleared in more than a year. Livzon's vaccine, if rolled out to the public, would widen boo
BEIJING: China granted emergency use authorisation to Livzon Pharmaceutical Group's COVID-19 vaccine as a booster, the firm said on Friday , marking one of the two new products against the disease the country cleared in more than a year.
Most people in China have been injected with the inactivated vaccines from Sinovac or Sinopharm for primary vaccination, among seven domestically developed shots the country approved for use between 2020 and 2021. The regimen of one Livzon booster after two doses of inactivated vaccines had an efficacy of 61.35 per cent, Livzon said in February, citing preliminary data from a trial involving more than 10,000 participants and 110 cases, without providing details.
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