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The head of China’s state-controlled Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd. has said its vaccine program is showing signs of good safety and efficacy as its Phase III trials progress – and has stressed that it is in a race against COVID-19, not the United States.

Yang Xiaoming, president of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), made the comments in an interview with China’s news outlet Global...

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