After securing the first approval globally for an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine, Chinese biotech CanSino CEO Xuefeng Yu sat down with Scrip in this Chinese-language interview to share his views on vaccine development and market opportunities in China and elsewhere.

Takeda’s dengue vaccine Qdenga has received its global first approval in Indonesia, as Qdenga, also marking the first time for the firm to market a vaccine outside Japan and potentially paving the way to wider global use of vaccines for the mosquito-borne disease following setbacks for earlier contenders. 

China reports flu outbreaks as COVID-19 cases decline, suggesting that population immunity may have been affected by the country's strict "COVID Zero" policies. The cost and availability of flu vaccines in the country are other policy factors playing into the situation. 

Panel expects to review five respiratory syncytial virus vaccines and vote on one or two of them in June 2023 and others four months later. Sanofi presents results of three clinical trials of its monoclonal antibody nirsevimab, which is on track to be the second RSV prophylaxis for infants.