Some of the coronavirus vaccinations being developed by China could be ready for public use by November, a medical chief has claimed.
Guizhen Wu, the chief biosafety expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said she was injected in April and has had no side effects.
It comes following news China has been inoculating tens of thousands of its citizens with experimental Covid vaccines. This is despite expert concerns over the safety of the drugs that have not completed standard testing.
The East Asian communist country, where the virus originated last year, launched a vaccine emergency use programme in July. The scheme offered three experimental shots developed by a unit of state pharmaceutical giant China