The top official at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the country may be able to administer a vaccine against the novel coronavirus as early as September.
“If we have an emergency outbreak again, we can use vaccines in Phase II or Phase III clinical trials for special groups such as medical workers then (in September),” Gao Fu, director of the China CDC, told state broadcaster China Global Television Network on Thursday.
Gao revealed that China currently has two candidate vaccines undergoing clinical trials: One is a recombinant vector vaccine; the other is an attenuated vaccine. One is an adenovirus vector vaccine; the other is an inactivated vaccine.
“We may be able to develop vaccines for healthy people (other than medical workers) by early next year — it all depends on how we’re moving forward,” Gao said. (Image: People Visual)
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