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A Chinese expert defended on Tuesday that Chinese citizens could begin to be vaccinated against covid-19, in November or December, since the clinical tests go smoothly.
Quoted by the official press, Wu Guizhen, the chief biosafety adviser at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China (CDC), said he believed that vaccines against the disease caused by the new coronavirus could have an effect on one and three years.
China is developing five of the nine vaccines that have reached the third phase of clinical trials around the world.
Wu considered that the Asian country is “leading” this process.
The specialist admitted having participated in one of the tests carried out in the country: “I was injected with a vaccine in April, I volunteered for the tests. I feel fine now,” he explained.
Wu said that specialists from the National Health Commission are reviewing pharmaceutical production projects “intensively” and that, for now, two have already been authorized to start producing vaccines.
Being a “high risk” virus, the specialist stressed that it is essential that vaccines are produced in a negative pressure environment that prevents the pathogen from leaking out or into other rooms.
Beijing approved the emergency use of vaccines for health officials and other sectors in late July.
According to a director of the China National Biotechnology Group (CNBG), at least two experimental vaccines have already been administered to “hundreds of thousands of Chinese, with no reported side effects.”
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