Sinopharm vaccine gets WHO approval for emergency use

The World Health Organization (WHO has granted emergency approval to the vaccine developed by Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm. 

This is the first vaccine developed by a non-Western country to get WHO backing, reports BBC.

Even without the WHO approval, the vaccine has already been given to millions of people in China and elsewhere. 

Previously, WHO only approved the vaccines made by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.

Meanwhile, individual health regulators in various countries — especially poorer ones in Africa, Latin America and Asia — have approved Chinese jabs for emergency use.