SINGAPORE - China is in talks to have its locally-produced Covid-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organisation , as a step towards making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday .
Dr Socorro Escalate, WHO's coordinator for essential medicines and health technologies in the Western Pacific region, told a news conference conducted online that China had held preliminary discussions with WHO to have its vaccines included in a list for emergency use. "Potentially through this emergency use, listing the quality and safety of these vaccines and efficacy could be assessed... and then this could be made available for our licensees,"Dr Escalante said.
They are tested in such countries as Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.
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