Sinopharm

The panel also recommends that people over 60 receive an additional dose of the shots made by Chinese vaccine makers Sinopharm and Sinovac some one to three months after completing their schedule.

Gavi says Covax now expects to be able to distribute two billion doses by early 2022, including 1.8 billion to the 92 poorest countries relying on the facility for their Covid vaccines.

The vaccines will be used for Chinese citizens in Vietnam, Vietnamese who have plan to work or study in China and people who live near the borders with China.

It is the first Chinese jab to receive WHO's green light.

China is exporting vaccines to 27 countries and providing free doses to 53 others, a foreign ministry spokesman says.

Beijing is sending one million doses of its Sinopharm vaccine to Phnom Penh, one of its closest allies.

The 'vaccines' were sold in China and to other unidentified countries,

A conditional listing helps hustle emergency drugs to market in cases when clinical trials are yet to meet normal standards but indicate they will work.

This puts it behind rival jabs developed by Pfizer and Moderna.

China's own Covid-19 vaccines have yet to receive public use approval from drug regulators.

60,000 across the globe have already taken the Sinopharm vaccine, including volunteers in Argentina, Russia and Saudi Arabia.