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Vietnam starts human trial of COVID-19 vaccine
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 14:31 GMT+7
A researcher at Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology implementing tests on Nanocovax, Vietnam s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for human trial. Photo: Duyen Phan / Tuoi Tre
Nanocovax – one of Vietnam’s domestically developed vaccines for COVID-19 – has officially received volunteers for its human clinical trial phase. Meanwhile, three other candidates are each running their own race to come up with an approved COVID-19 vaccine for mass inoculation.
Developed by Vietnamese manufacturer Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Nanocovax will be brought to human trials under the supervision of the Vietnam Military Medical University.
The vaccine roadmap
Just one year ago on December 3, the first case of novel coronavirus infection was detected in China. Named COVID-19, the disease stemming from the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen managed to spread across the world, causing the most contagious and precarious epidemic in the last 100