JOHANNESBURG, March 12 (Reuters) – South Africa’s medicines regulator SAHPRA said on Friday that it had received documentation for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac.

It added in a statement that it would now start evaluating the data and assessing the efficacy of the vaccine. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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