ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images 7 Jul 2021 The Singapore Ministry of Health announced Tuesday that only individuals who have received the coronavirus vaccine products developed by American companies Pfizer and Moderna will count towards official national vaccination statistics, excluding those who received Chinese-made products. The Chinese Communist Party has approved five vaccine products for use within the country. Abroad, it has focused on promoting two of them: the vaccine candidate developed by the firm Sinovac Biotech and its competitor from Sinopharm. Sinovac’s “Coronavac” has received significant international scrutiny over its apparently low rate of success in preventing coronavirus infections, as observed through large coronavirus outbreaks in countries that have relied on it as its main inoculation product.