Chinese company setting up vaccine production lines

International efforts are taking place to find a vaccine (Imperial College London/PA)

A state-owned Chinese company is setting up production lines to supply one billion doses of two possible coronavirus vaccines that are being tested on 50,000 people in 10 countries, its chairman has announced.

Testing by SinoPharm Group is “in the last kilometre of a long march” Liu Jingzhen said at a news conference.