Chan told Reuters that standards had not been lowered to accept the Sinovac vaccine and there was no pressure from Beijing to get it approved in the Chinese special administrative region.
“The government has not politicized any vaccine. In fact, we really think that one should not politicize any of the vaccination process, because really the COVID-19 vaccine is our hope,” she said in an interview at her office in government headquarters.

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