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South Africa's drugs regulator to start assessing Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine

FILE PHOTO: Health care worker prepares a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass vaccination program for vendors and workers at a shopping mall in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

South Africa's medicines regulator SAHPRA said on Friday that it had received documentation for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac.

It added in a statement that it would now start evaluating the data and assessing the efficacy of the vaccine.

(Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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