China has approved the emergency use of another COVID-19 Vaccine. This vaccine has been prepared by the ‘Center for Disease Control (CDC) of China. In this way, China has got another weapon to fight the epidemic. The vaccine, led by CDC chief Gao Fu, was approved by drug regulators last week. The Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences gave this information in a statement on Monday. This is the fourth vaccine approved in China for vaccination against coronavirus.
China is vaccinating its citizens through a total of four vaccines. Three of these have been prepared by Chinese companies. The vaccine is administered by Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. And the Chinese Academy of Sciences has prepared together. The team completed the first and second phase of clinical trials in October last year. Currently, the team is conducting the third phase trials in Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Indonesia. The use of this vaccine was approved on 1 March in Uzbekistan.
Approval for four vaccines, but the pace of vaccination is still very slow
However, the clinical results of this vaccine have not been published in any scientific journal. On this, the company spokesperson said that this time the data will not be shared, but the company will continue to actively inform the health authorities in this regard. China is vaccinating its 1.4 billion population at a very slow pace. That too then four vaccines have been allowed to be used. According to the latest data released by the government, up to 6.4 crore people have been vaccinated in China so far.
Frontline workers are being given priority in applying the vaccine
In China, priority is being given to applying vaccines to those who are more at risk of getting infected by the virus. For this reason, vaccines have been applied to health care workers, custom workers etc. So far all the vaccines have been approved, they have been asked to apply for people between 18-59 years old. But now it seems that China is going to vaccinate even older people. Let us know that in December 2019, the first coronavirus case was reported in Wuhan city of China.
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