Uğur Şahin, BioNTech CEO (Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Up­dat­ed: BioN­Tech sends mR­NA Covid-19 vac­cines to Chi­na for 20,000 ex­pats

Chi­na has opened up its doors to a for­eign Covid-19 vac­cine for the first time, though not for its own cit­i­zens, a Ger­man gov­ern­ment spokesper­son told Reuters on Wednes­day.

BioN­Tech’s mR­NA vac­cines have been sent to Chi­na to meet the goal of vac­ci­nat­ing 20,000 Ger­man ex­pa­tri­ates there, a spokesper­son for the Ger­man em­bassy in Wash­ing­ton con­firmed to End­points News. There will be ad­di­tion­al ship­ments, the spokesper­son said, with­out pro­vid­ing de­tails on when or how many dos­es would be de­liv­ered. The shots will be pro­vid­ed free to Ger­mans over 12 years old and will be shipped to Ger­man em­bassies and com­pa­nies across the coun­try.

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