Beijing: China is advancing the development of Covid-19 vaccines against variants of the novel coronavirus and experiments have shown the inactivated vaccines currently used in the country are effective against them.
Zhang Yuntao, vice-president of China National Biotech Group, a subsidiary of state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, told a news conference on Sunday that researchers had been testing the antiviral-mutation ability of the inactivated vaccines.
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