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Table 4 Vaccines already approved for the market (as of October 12, 2021)

From: Advances in the design and development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

Type

Institution and candidate

Product name

References

Status

mRNA-based vaccine

BioNTech/Pfizer

Comirnaty (also known as tozinameran or BNT162b2)

[105, 106]

Approved for use in: Bahrain, Brazil, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland

mRNA-based vaccine

Moderna/National Institutes of Health

mRNA-1273

[107,108,109,110]

Approved for use in: Switzerland

Recombinant adenovirus vector vaccine

Gamaleya Research Institute

Sputnik V (also known as Gam-Covid-Vac)

[111, 112]

Emergency use in: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Bosnian Serb Republic, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Djibouti, Ecuador NEW, Egypt, Honduras, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Maldives NEW, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua (including Sputnik Light), North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Russia (including Sputnik Light), San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (including Sputnik Light) NEW, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

Non-replicating viral vector

Oxford University/AstraZeneca

Vaxzevria (also known as AZD1222, or Covishield in India)

[63, 113,114,115,116,117,118]

Approved for use in: Brazil

Recombinant adenovirus vector vaccine

CanSino Biologics/Academy of Military Medical Sciences

Convidecia (also known as Ad5-nCoV)

[119, 120]

Approved for use in: China

Non-replicating viral vector

Johnson & Johnson’s/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Ad26.COV2.S

[121,122,123,124,125,126]

Emergency use in: Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, European Union, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova NEW, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Zambia

Synthetic peptide vaccine

Vector Institute

EpiVacCorona

[127]

Approved for use in: Turkmenistan

Protein subunit

Anhui Zhifei Longcom and the Institute of Medical Biology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

ZF2001

[128, 129]

Emergency use in: China, Uzbekistan

Inactivated virus

Beijing Institute of Biological Products

BBIBP-CorV

[130,131,132]

Approved for use in: Bahrain, China, United Arab Emirates

Non-replicating viral vector

Sinovac Biotech

CoronaVac (formerly PiCoVacc)

[128, 133]

Approved for use in: China

Non-replicating viral vector

Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology/Bharat Biotech

Covaxin (also known as BBV152 A, B, C)

[134]

Emergency use in: Botswana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Iran, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Zimbabwe

Inactivated virus

Wuhan Institute of Biological Products/Sinopharm

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Vero cell), inactivated

[135]

Approved for use in: China

inactivated coronavirus vaccine

Chumakov Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences

CoviVac

[127]

Early use in: Russia

 

Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products

ChAdOx1

[136,137,138,139]

Emergency use in: China