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		</div><p>Bahrain said on Sunday that it has approved the use of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine, following its earlier approval of a vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.</p>
<p>Bahrain’s state-run news agency said the Sinopharm vaccine will be made available in the island kingdom off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf.</p>
<p>However, it offered few details on study results of the vaccine, in line with the United Arab Emirates, which last week announced that the vaccine is 86% effective.</p>
<p>The Emirati statement provided few details but marked the first public release of information on the efficacy of the jab.</p>
<p>Bahrain said more than 7,700 people had signed up to take part in a trial of the Sinopharm.</p>
<p>The kingdom earlier said it plans to give the public the vaccine free of charge, but has yet to answer any questions about its programme.</p>
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<p>The Sinopharm vaccine has been approved for emergency use in a few countries and the company is still carrying out late-stage clinical trials in 10 countries.</p>
<p>Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious Covid-19 vaccination programme, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that is relying initially on the Sinopharm vaccine.</p>
<p>Sinopharm’s jab relies on a tested technology, using a killed virus to deliver the vaccine, similar to how polio immunisations are made.</p>
<p>Leading Western competitors, like the vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, use newer, less-proven technology to target the coronavirus’s spike protein using RNA.</p>
<p>The UK has already begun vaccinating people with the Pfizer jab and the US is poised to follow.</p>
<p>Pfizer has reported its vaccine as being 95% effective, while another RNA candidate from Moderna appears to be 94.5% effective.</p>
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<p>Results suggest a third vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca is safe and about 70% effective, but questions remain about how well it may help protect those over 55.</p>
<p>Also on Sunday, Kuwait’s state-run Kuna news agency announced that the oil-rich country’s health ministry has given the go-ahead for emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine.</p>
<p>The ministry had already offered citizens the option to pre-register on its website to receive the vaccine.</p>
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