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ILLUSTRATION A scientist at the RNA pharmaceutical company, Arcturus Therapeutics, investigates a vaccine for a new coronavirus (COVID-19) in a laboratory in San Diego, California, USA. USA, March 17, 2020.
Source: Channelnewsasia.com The | Editor: H.H. Kurniawan
KONTAN.CO.ID – Sinovac Biotech claims a breakthrough in the development of vaccines against the coronavirus. The Chinese company gave the name of its experimental vaccine: Coronavac.
Thousands of vaccine injections for pathogen-based coronaviruses are already actively produced with Sinovac, and are packaged in white and orange containers that read Coronavac.
Sinovac is a company that conducts one of four clinical trials of an experimental vaccine to combat the coronavirus that has been approved by the Chinese government.
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While human trials have just begun, Sinovac said, it is set to make 100 million doses a year to combat the virus that emerged in central China late last year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the development of a vaccine could take 12 to 18 months. And Sinovac doesn’t know when its half-milliliter injection will be ready for the market.
“This is a question everyone is asking,” said Sinovac’s director of brand management, Liu Peicheng. AFP as reported Channelnewsasia.com.
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Nasdaq-registered Sinovac has experience in the mass production of global virus drugs. They are the first pharmaceutical company to market a vaccine against H1N1 or swine flu in 2009.
Currently, more than 100 laboratories around the world are struggling to produce the coronavirus vaccine. However, only seven, including Sinovac, are currently in clinical trials, according to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Sinovac has published results showing that its vaccine “greatly protects” monkeys from infection in animal experiments.
But, these results have not received a review from the global scientific community.
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