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China approves emergency usage of covid vaccines: Official
BEIJING : China has authorised emergency usage of COVID-19 vaccines developed by some select domestic companies, a Chinese health official has said.An emergency use authorisation, which is based on Chinese vaccine management law, allows unapproved vaccine candidates to be used among people who are at high risk of getting infected on a limited period."We've drawn up a series of plan packages, including medical consent forms, side-effects monitoring plans, rescuing plans, compensation plans, to make sure that the emergency use is well regulated and monitored," Zheng Zhongwei, head of China's coronavirus vaccine development task force, told state-run CCTV on Saturday.One month has passed since China officially launched the urgent use of