Colombia declares emergency use of Sinovac vaccines

(MENAFN)Colombian leader Ivan Duque declared on Wednesday, February 3, that the country's National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute has approved the emergency use of coronavirus vaccines developed by Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech.

The consent was made following specialists' assessment of the vaccines, Duque stated throughout a daily television program on coronavirus.

According to the Colombian government, the country will initiate a mass inoculation movement against the coronavirus pandemic on February 20.

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