These are the side effects of the Sinovac vaccine clinically proven in Bandung

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine, which is being clinically tested in Bandung for the past five months, has shown side effects felt by volunteers.

The head of the Covid-19 vaccine research team at the Padjajaran University School of Medicine, Kusnandi Rusmil, said that, for five months, Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine had involved 1,620 volunteers aged between 18 and 59 years they were the subjects.

According to him, an emergency scheme that has an interval of 14 days between two doses is an option to try. The same scheme is also carried out in Brazil and Turkey.

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“The dose injection was completed on November 6 and 14 days after the injection was completed on November 20, 2020,” Kusnandi said at Bio Farma, Bandung, on Wednesday (12/30/2020).

“All the subjects were monitored for side effects that they felt after the injection,” he continued.

Kusnandi said that so far the side effect that most volunteers felt was local reactions in the form of pain at the injection site, with the majority being mild.

So the most systemic reactions that are felt are muscle pain and most are mild.

“This month, the blood draw came three months after the second injection. The antibody test with the neutralization method was carried out in Balitbangkes with the Elisa method (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) at Bio Farma,” he said.

Kusnandi said interim reports for up to three months after the second injection would be sent to the Agency for Food and Drug Supervision (BPOM) in early January 2021.

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In addition, he reported, there were 1,817 volunteers who were screened for the Covid-19 vaccine.

Next, there were 1,372 people who received swabs, 1,620 who received the first injection, and 1,603 people who received the second injection.

“Now we just have to follow the side effect events,” he said.