The approval comes one day after the drugmaker said its vaccine is 79.34 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, citing interim analysis of phase 3 clinical trials.
Chinese citizens will be provided free vaccinations, Zeng Yixin, vice minister of China’s National Health Commission, said during a Dec. 31 news conference. The country is seeking to inoculate 50 million people with domestically developed COVID-19 vaccines before February’s Lunar New Year festivities, according to CNN.
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