KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has given conditional approval for a COVID-19 vaccine made by means of China's Sinovac for use on younger individuals aged between 12 and 17, its health ministry spoke of on Friday.
young adults more youthful than 18 all started receiving COVID-19 doses closing month, after vaccinations of more than eighty% of adults were accomplished in a single of Southeast Asia's fastest vaccine rollouts that has coated 62% of a inhabitants of 32 million.
In a statement, the health ministry said Malaysia's medication regulator recommended precedence for Sinovac's product amongst teenagers with out co-morbidities or allergy issues, or in any other case deemed unsuitable for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
In July, Malaysia stated it will stop https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-stop-using-sinovac-vaccine-after-deliver-ends-minister-2021-07-15 giving the Sinovac shot when components ran out, as it had enough of other vaccines for th e country wide campaign.
Malaysia has persisted to acquire extra shipments, youngsters. This week, the international ministry mentioned China had agreed to donate a million doses of the Sinovac vaccine, following a donation of 500,000 in July.
(Reporting through Rozanna Latiff; modifying by means of Clarence Fernandez)
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