Explaining China's five Covid vaccines, test results and global distribution plans
SCMP, 18 Jan 2021
Analysis and comparison of China's five Covid-19 vaccines now in the final phase of testing, and where they are being distributed around the world. Kinling Lo speaks with Josephine Ma about vaccines developed by Sinovac, CanSino, Sinopharm and Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical, comparing thier designs and test results in south east Asia and Brazil. Simone McCarthy reports on Xi Jinping's plans to distribute these vaccines as a 'global public good', which nations are ordering these vaccines, and the logistics needeed to inocculate billions of people. #scmppodcasts