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The Malaysian government announces that due to the threat of the Omicron variant, there will be a ban on all large-scale Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations. The government will also require people over the age of 60 as well as adults who received the Sinovac Coronavac vaccine to receive a booster dose before February in order to maintain their full vaccination status.
2021-12-16

Hong Kong authorises the usage of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children between the ages of 3 and 17 years.
2021-11-20

Algeria begins producing the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac, with expected production of eight million doses per month.
2021-09-29

Venezuela receives their first shipment of 693,600 doses of the Sinovac Coronavac vaccine supplied through the COVAX initiative.
2021-09-7

The Chilean government announces that they will begin administering booster doses for those who have received the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine beginning on August 11 for people over the age of 55 using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and in September for people under the age of 55 using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in order to protect the population from the Delta variant.
2021-08-5

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority approves the usage of the Coronavac vaccine made by Sinovac under certain conditions.
2021-07-3

China becomes the first major country to authorize the emergency use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children as young as three years old.
2021-06-5

The Philippines begins its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine donated by China, with the first doses administered to healthcare workers in Metro Manila.
2021-03-1

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and health workers across the country receive their second doses of COVID-19 vaccine as the country begins to administer second doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine.
2021-02-11

China's National Medical Products Administration gives a conditional approval to Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine for general use.
2021-02-6