{"id":26233,"date":"2020-12-31T12:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/31\/china-approves-sinopharm-covid-19-vaccine-for-general-use"},"modified":"2020-12-31T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:52:45","slug":"china-approves-sinopharm-covid-19-vaccine-for-general-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26233","title":{"rendered":"China approves Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for general use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rollout to begin \u2018soon\u2019 but about a million have already received injection under emergency approvals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s health authorities have approved a Covid vaccine from state-owned Sinopharm for general use on the population, the government has announced.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Beijing a state taskforce announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/14\/chinas-sinopharm-vaccine-how-effective-is-it-and-where-will-it-be-rolled-out\">the vaccine<\/a> had exceeded World Health Organization standards and would help establish effective immunity in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/31\/china-approves-sinopharm-covid-19-vaccine-for-general-use\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rollout to begin \u2018soon\u2019 but about a million have already received injection under emergency approvalsSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s health authorities have approved a Covid vaccine from state-owned Sinopharm for general use on the population, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,346,914,512,299,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}