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 Updated 0951 GMT (1751 HKT) December 31, 2020

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(CNN) — China approved its first homegrown coronavirus vaccine for general public use on
Thursday, with o cials promising to provide the general public with free inoculations.

The approval comes a day after its manufacturer, state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, BackStretch
said the vaccine is 79.34% e ective, citing interim analysis of Phase 3 clinical trials.
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approval underscores claims made by Chinese o cials in recent weeks over the safety and dzisiaj.
e ectiveness of the country's domestically produced vaccine candidates.

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February's Lunar New Year celebrations. It has also drastically scaled up its vaccine emergency
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Zeng Yixin, vice-minister of China's National Health Commission, said at a news conference
Thursday that the Sinopharm vaccine will be provided free of charge to Chinese citizens.

"Vaccine is a public good by its nature, and the price may vary based on the scale of use, but an
important premise is that it will be provided to the public for free," Zeng said.

Since December 15, more than 3 million vaccine doses have been administered to "key groups,"
Zeng said. That's on top of the 1.5 million doses administered to "high-risk groups" by the end of
November, he added.

Among those inoculated, fewer than 0.1% developed a light fever, and about two people per
million developed "relative serious adverse reactions" such as allergies, according to Zeng.

The next step is to inoculate vulnerable groups such as the elderly and people with underlying
diseases, before vaccinating the general population, Zeng said, without o ering more details on
how the vaccines will be provided for free.

A Sinopharm company executive said Thursday the

vaccine's Phase 3 trials covered more than 60,000
people, while detailed data will be released later and
published in scientific journals at home and abroad.

An o cial with China's drug regulator said the

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vaccine's clinical trials are still ongoing, and its
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The Sinopharm vaccine is less e ective than those
developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which
have an e cacy rate of about 95%. Russia says its

And the vaccine's e cacy rate of 79% is lower than the 86% announced by the United Arab
Emirates for the same vaccine on December 9. The UAE based its results on an interim analysis
of late-stage clinical trials conducted there from July. It has since approved the vaccine for
public use.

The Sinopharm vaccine has a higher e cacy rate than the one developed by the UK's Oxford
University and AstraZeneca, which averaged 70%. On Wednesday, the UK became the first
country to approve that vaccine for public distribution.

A step closer to massive rollout

Sinopharm's results were announced weeks after its global competitors. And with a lack of
details, it remains unclear whether the information provided will be enough to dispel skepticism
over the quality of Chinese vaccines.

Nevertheless, the announcement could still pave the way for the vaccine's large-scale rollout
both within China and globally.

China is ready to send hundreds of millions of doses to

countries that have conducted last-stage trials for its Paid Content by
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Beijing is using the global campaign as a soft power

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