COVID-19: China shows off its vaccines for the first time
Beijing, 7th September: China has shown off its vaccine for the pandemic coronavirus for the first time.
According to reports from AFP, China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.
Chinese companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm, the vaccine makers hope they will be approved after all-important phase 3 trials as early as year-end.
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A Sinovac representative told AFP his firm has already “completed the construction of a vaccine factory” able to produce 300 million doses a year.
The small vials of liquid are on a display at a Beijing trade fair this week. On Monday, people at the trade fair crowded around booths showing the potential game-changing vaccines.
The potential vaccines on display are among nearly 10 worldwide to enter phase 3 trials, typically the last step ahead of regulatory approval, as countries race to stub out the virus and reboot battered economies.
Sinopharm said it anticipates the antibodies from its jab to last between one and three years — although the final result will only be known after the trials.
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China’s national tabloid Global Times reported last month that “the price of the vaccines will not be high”.
Every two doses should cost below 1,000 yuan ($146), the report said, citing Sinopharm’s chairman, who told media he has already been injected with one of the candidate vaccines.
China’s official Xinhua news agency informed on Monday that another vaccine candidate, developed by Chinese military scientists, can deal with mutations in the coronavirus.
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As of last month, at least 5.7 billion doses of the vaccines under development around the world had been pre-ordered.
However, the World Health Organization has warned that widespread immunization against COVID-19 may not be on the cards until the middle of next year.
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