China National Pharmaceutical Group's (Sinopharm) chairman has said the firm has the capacity to provide more than one billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to the rest of the world in the second half of 2021.

That level of supply capability assumes vaccination demand in China is being met, Liu said at a panel of the Global Health Forum of the Boao Forum for Asia, according to a Reuters report.

A box for a Covid-19 vaccine is displayed at an exhibit by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm at the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing. — AP/File
A box for a Covid-19 vaccine is displayed at an exhibit by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm at the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing. — AP/File

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