{"id":27746,"date":"2021-02-03T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/chinas-sinopharm-vaccine-offered-to-elite-few-in-uae-tourist-deal"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:00:49","slug":"chinas-sinopharm-vaccine-offered-to-elite-few-in-uae-tourist-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27746","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Sinopharm vaccine offered to elite few in UAE tourist deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knightsbridge Circle offer is first evidence of Covid-19 vaccine being used to attract tourists<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s Sinopharm vaccine is being offered to a handful of wealthy people paying for access to the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Covid-19 vaccination programme as part of a partnership to \u201cbring tourism into the area\u201d, according to an exclusive London club that claims to be brokering the service.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine is in wide usage in the UAE but is yet to receive emergency approval from the UK government or the World Health Organization. The Pfizer\/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, also approved in the Emirates, is not included in the pay-to-access deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/chinas-sinopharm-vaccine-offered-to-elite-few-in-uae-tourist-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knightsbridge Circle offer is first evidence of Covid-19 vaccine being used to attract touristsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s Sinopharm vaccine is being offered to a handful of wealthy people paying for access to th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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":[41,50,1066,346,1203,79,1886,1039,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-inequality","category-society","category-the-super-rich","category-united-arab-emirates","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\/27746","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions\/27749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}