China Sees No Variant Impact On Vaccines, Builds New mRNA Plant
Million Already Inoculated Despite No Final Data
Executive Summary
Chinese officials do not expect the new strain of coronavirus emerging in the UK to impact the efficacy of inactivated virus vaccines on the cusp of conditional approval. Meanwhile, a new plant is under construction in China for domestically developed mRNA vaccines.
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