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Wall Street Journal: In global COVID-19 vaccine race, Chinese shot receives first foreign approval

Published Sept. 16, 2020 at 4:23 am

Three potential coronavirus, COVID-19, vaccines are kept in a tray at Novavax labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland on March 20, 2020, one of the labs developing a vaccine for COVID-19.

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The United Arab Emirates has become the first country outside China to approve emergency usage of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine candidate, in a vote of confidence for a state-backed drugmaker racing global rivals to stop the spread of the coronavirus.