MANILA, Philippines—A checkered past dug up by a leading US newspaper is hounding a Chinese pharmaceutical company producing one of several coronavirus vaccines being lined up for use in the Philippines.
In a Dec. 4 report, Washington Post said Sinovac Biotech had been found to have a record of bribing Chinese drug regulators to secure vaccine approvals, which had raised serious questions about its products’ safety.
Sinovac Biotech is one of several pharmaceutical firms being considered as coronavirus vaccine supplier in the Philippines. It has already started delivering vaccines to Indonesia, according to several reports online on Dec. 6.
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