Covid-19 vaccines from China’s CanSino Biologics and the US’ Johnson & Johnson, both of which only require one dose to be effective, have been given conditional approval for use in Malaysia, said Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The Drug Control Authority (DCA), in its meeting today, also approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for children as young as 12 years old, he added...