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Brazil Embraces Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine as Cases Soar
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration has backed down from its criticism of Chinese vaccines and agreed to buy up to 100 million doses of a shot being developed by China’s Sinovac, as Latin America confronts a postholiday surge in Covid-19 cases.
China to Vaccinate 50 Million People With Its Covid-19 Shots
China is expanding an already considerable rollout of its leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates.
JD Health IPO Will Set Hearts Racing
The record initial public offering of fintech giant Ant Group crashed before taking off. Another Chinese tech listing in Hong Kong should fare better.
China Drugmakers Face Pressure to Prove Their Covid-19 Vaccines Work
Pressure is mounting on Chinese drugmakers to show clinical evidence that their leading Covid-19 vaccines work, after early data on three Western-developed shots showed promising effectiveness against the disease.
China’s Health-Care Listings Break Records
Chinese health-care companies are enjoying a banner year, with an overhaul of the country’s health system and relaxed listing rules helping fuel a surge in share sales.
Covid-19 Vaccine Makers See Egypt as Crucial Launchpad
With a population of nearly 100 million and an established vaccine-manufacturing capacity, Egypt is emerging as a critical proving ground for global powers seeking to export a vaccine to the developing world.
China Drugmaker Gives Unproven Covid-19 Vaccine to Students Going Abroad
China is expanding distribution of coronavirus vaccines outside of clinical trials, with a state-owned company offering them to students going abroad amid a campaign by officials to boost public confidence in homegrown inoculations.
China Greenlights Another Covid-19 Vaccine for Human Testing
A Chinese drugmaker, which is collaborating with AstraZeneca PLC on production of a coronavirus vaccine, has won approval from Chinese regulators to start testing one of its own vaccine candidates at home.
In Global Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Chinese Shot Receives First Foreign Approval
The United Arab Emirates has become the first country outside China to approve emergency usage of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine candidate, in a vote of confidence for a state-backed drugmaker racing global rivals to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
WSJ News Exclusive | Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Maker in Talks With Countries on Early Approval
CanSino is in talks with several countries to secure emergency approval for an experimental coronavirus vaccine before large-scale safety and effectiveness trials are completed, according to a company executive.
WSJ News Exclusive | China to Supply Coronavirus Vaccine to Pakistan
China will supply coronavirus vaccines to Pakistan as part of an agreement for vaccine trials to take place in the South Asian nation, according to Pakistani government officials
Pandemic Lays Bare U.S. Reliance on China for Drugs
Acetaminophen, antibiotics and high blood pressure treatments are among a slew of pharmaceutical ingredients made predominantly by China. Disruptions and high demand have expanded concerns about the supply of medicines.
For Wuhan’s COVID Mourners, Little Has Been Laid to Rest
In a conversation on Weibo, Yang, 50, told me about the loss of her 24-year-old daughter, Yuxi, her only child, to COVID-19. She was grieving, of course, but she was also seeking justice for what she
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. National Security Panel Examining Chinese Investors’ Purchase of Pharma Firm
The inquiry focuses on the 2017 acquisition of South Carolina-based Ritedose after national-security officials learned it was in talks with the Pentagon over a project involving injection devices for a coronavirus vaccine.
China to Fast-Track Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Based on Advanced Genetics Technology
A research institute run by China’s military received approval to conduct human clinical trials of a new Covid-19 vaccine developed using so-called messenger RNA, in a notable breakthrough for China’s quickly developing pharmaceutical industry.
WSJ News Exclusive | Over 1,300 Chinese Medical Suppliers to U.S.—Including Mask Providers—Use Bogus Registration Data
Over 1,300 Chinese medical-supply companies, many providing masks and respirators in the pandemic, listed on their FDA registrations a U.S. agent without proper contact information, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.
‘A Letter to My Friend under Quarantine in Wuhan’
Highlighting Chinese visual storytellers’ coverage of COVID-19 inside China. Some of these storytellers were on the ground documenting the experience of residents and medical workers in Wuhan, the
Herbalife to Pay $123 Million to Settle China Bribery Allegations
Herbalife Nutrition said it has reached an agreement in principle with U.S. authorities to resolve bribery investigations into its business activities in China.
Race for Coronavirus Vaccine Accelerates as Pfizer Says U.S. Testing to Begin Next Week
The push for a vaccine to combat the new coronavirus is moving faster than researchers and drugmakers expected, with Pfizer joining several other groups saying that they had accelerated the timetable for testing and that a vaccine could be ready for emergency use in the fall.
China Seeks to Ease Medical Goods Shipment Delays With New Rule
China offered a new route for producers of medical goods to obtain export approval, a move that could help ease recent shipment delays of critical medical equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic to the U.S. and other countries.
