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Vietnam enters second phase of Covid-19 vaccine trials
By Chi Le, Anh Thu February 26, 2021 | 09:14 pm GMT+7
A man in Long An Province is injected with Nanocovax, a Vietnamese Covid-19 vaccine, as part of the second phase of its human trials, February 26, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran.
Vietnam began the second phase of domestic Covid-19 vaccine human trials Friday with 73 volunteers.
Thirty-five volunteers in Hanoi and 38 in southern Long An Province were divided into four groups for the second phase of human trials of Nanocovax, a Vietnamese Covid-19 vaccine produced by Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC.
Groups would be injected with placebos, as well as 25 microgram, 50 microgram and 75 microgram doses each. Volunteers would not know which type of shot they received.
An area where volunteers will be monitored after they receive shots at the
Hanoi (VNA) – The second phase of the
human trials of Nano Covax, a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, will begin on February
26, following the first phase that has been proven safe.
As many as 560 volunteers, aged from 18 to 65, will
participate in the second phase, according to Nguyen Ngo Quang, Deputy Director
of the Department of Science, Technology and Training under the Ministry of
Health.
The testing will be carried out at the Vietnam
Military Medical University in Hanoi and in the Mekong Delta province of Long An by the HCM City-based Pasteur Institute.
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