Indonesia will start administering COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged between 6-11 on Tuesday, a health ministry official said, as the Southeast Asian country becomes one of the first in the region to immunise the very young. Indonesia approved China’s Sinovac Biotech vaccine for the age group last month and about 26.5 million children have been … Read more
New Delhi: The much-hyped mass trial of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine in Bangladesh has become uncertain and may even be a non-starter after drugmaker Sinovac Biotech Ltd asked the Hasina government to co-finance the initiative. Sinovac Biotech Ltd in a letter on September 24 said the trial would be delayed unless the Bangladesh government provided … Read more
A Chinese pharmaceutical company has injected hundreds of thousands of people with experimental Covid-19 vaccines, as its Western counterparts warn against administering mass vaccinations before rigorous scientific studies are complete. China National Biotec Group Co., a subsidiary of state-owned Sinopharm, has given two experimental vaccine candidates to hundreds of thousands of people under an emergency-use … Read more
Experts said the phase-3 clinical trial meant the vaccine would now be administered on thousands of people for testing its efficacy and safety. (Representational) Bangladesh on Thursday gave approval for the final stage human trial of a prospective COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, as the country reported 45 new deaths and over 2,400 … Read more