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China OKs 1st homegrown vaccine said to be 79.3% effective

by Ken Moritsugu & Huizhong WU
| December 31, 2020 12:03 AM

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.

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