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FILE PHOTO: Government-organised visit to the production line of COVID-19 vaccine by Beijing Institute of Biological Products of Sinopharm’s CNBG
DUBAI (Reuters) – A new pharmaceutical plant in Abu Dhabi will start making a COVID-19 vaccine from Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm later this year under a joint venture between Sinopharm and Abu Dhabi-based technology company Group 42 (G42).
The vaccine will be called Hayat-Vax when manufactured in the United Arab Emirates, but is the same BiBP inactivated vaccine that has been administered in the UAE since it was approved by authorities in Decemeber.
(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Kim Coghill)
