JAKARTA: China's Sinovac Biotech launched on Tuesday (Aug 11) a late-stage human trial involving as many as 1,620 patients in Indonesia for a ...
FILE PHOTO: Governments and private companies around the world - like Sinovac Biotech in Beijing, seen here - are working to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. JAKARTA: China's Sinovac Biotech launched on Tuesday a late-stage human trial involving as many as 1,620 patients in Indonesia for a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that it is developing with Indonesian state-owned peer Bio Farma.
Its Indonesia trial comes as Southeast Asia's most populous country grapples with spiking infection numbers, with over 127,000 cases recorded as of Tuesday. The trial has so far recruited 1,215 people and will last six months. READ: Fauci warns COVID-19 vaccine may be only partially effective, public health measures still needed
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