Hong Kong (CNN) Almost a million people have been given an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Sinopharm as part of an emergency-use program authorized by Beijing, the Chinese pharmaceutical giant's chairman said. No serious adverse effects have been reported from vaccine recipients so far, Sinopharm said Wednesday in an article on social media platform WeChat , citing Chairman Liu Jingzhen. We have not received any reports of serious adverse reaction, and only a few have some mild symptoms," Liu said. Liu said the vaccine had been given to Chinese construction workers, diplomats, and students who have gone to more than 150 countries around the world during the pandemic -- and none of them has reported an infection. He said on November 6 that there were 56,000 people who had received emergency vaccinations and then gone overseas.

Source: CNN November 20, 2020 15:33 UTC