ABC: The WHO's independent panel of experts said in a statement it recommended Sinovac's vaccine for adults over 18.

WHO & independent experts? - that's an oxymoron.

BBC: It is the second Chinese vaccine to receive the green light from the WHO, after Sinopharm. It opens the door for the jab to be used in the Covax programme.

That means we can now dump it on third world countries.

BBC: As well as China, the vaccine is already being administered in countries including Chile, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey.

Where it's proving to be spectacularly useless.

BBC: One of Sinovac's main advantages is that it can be stored in a standard refrigerator at 2-8 degrees Celsius. This means Sinovac is a lot more useful to developing countries.

Hello? If it's not effective, it's not useful. It's dangerous. Even Chinese officials say it ineffective.

George Gao, China CDC head: (We are)formally considering options (how to) solve the problem that the efficacy of the existing vaccines is not high.

As we've heard with AZ, the talk from the experts is 'maybe if we upped the doses - or how 'bout we cocktail it with other vaccines!?'

This is reckless, dangerous talk. Flooding the world with ineffective vaccines will only make the virus worse - it already has.