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- A coronavirus vaccine being developed in China could be ready as early as November, according to a senior Chinese scientist;
- China currently has four coronavirus vaccines in development.
- Guizhen, head of biosecurity at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said: ‘It will be very soon. Currently, progress is very fluid. “
- 176 coronavirus vaccines are in development worldwide, and at least fifty are likely to undergo human trials by the end of 2020, according to a Business Insider review.
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A coronavirus vaccine being developed in China could be ready as early as November, according to a senior Chinese health official.
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention biosecurity expert Wu Guizhen said on Monday that one of four vaccines being developed in the country could be ready for use in the winter months, according to a report. from Reuters.
Guizhen told state broadcaster CCTV on Monday: “It will be very soon. Progress is currently very smooth.”
China has been injecting key workers with an experimental coronavirus vaccine since July. Zheny Zhongei, director of the science and technology center of the National Health Commission (NHC), said that health workers and border officials were among those on whom the vaccine was being tested.
Guizhen said that she had taken an experimental vaccine herself in April and had not experienced any adverse reactions.
It comes in the midst of a global race for a vaccine that has already seen Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, announce that scientists in Moscow had developed one that is safe and effective.
However, Putin’s announcement was widely criticized amid suggestions that the vaccine had not been fully tested.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said he was “very skeptical” that Russia’s vaccine has been shown to be completely safe, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert. He said he “seriously doubts” that Moscow has developed a safe. and an effective vaccine that was ready for use.
176 coronavirus vaccines are in development worldwide, and at least fifty are likely to undergo human trials by the end of 2020, according to a Business Insider review.
Currently, a total of 32 candidate vaccines are being tested in humans in clinical trials, one of which could prove as safe as it is effective by the end of 2020.
