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Kazakhstan receives 1st batch of China's CoronaVac vaccine

01 June 2021 13:23 (UTC +04:00)

The first 500,000 doses of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech has arrived in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country's interdepartmental commission on fighting the coronavirus said on Tuesday, APA reports citing Sputnik.

"Today [on Tuesday], following talks with China, the first batch of CoronaVac vaccine arrived in Almaty via a special flight. The drug is manufactured by the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech Ltd," the commission said in a press release, adding that the delivery includes 500,000 doses of the vaccine.

CoronaVac became the fourth vaccine available to the citizens of Kazakhstan, along with home-made QazVac, Russia's Sputnik V, as well as China's Hayat-Vax produced in the United Arab Emirates.