Australian Universities Push For Government to Approve Chinese Vaccines

An employee handles vials containing CoronaVac, Sinovac Biotech's vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Butantan biomedical center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 12, 2021. Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

Australian universities are pressing the federal government to approve the two Chinese vaccines Sinovac and Sinopharm, after Australia’s drugs regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), said that it would be advising the government on Chinese and Indian vaccines soon.

The regulator has so far approved Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, and AstraZeneca.