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Coronavirus: China reveals when vaccine could be ready for public


China has announced that a vaccine against the coronavirus could be ready as early as November 2020.

Vaccine makers around the world are struggling to develop an effective vaccine against the virus that has already killed more than 925,000 people.

 China already has four COVID-19 vaccines in the final stages of clinical trials and has administered three of those vaccines to essential workers as part of an emergency use program.

Guizhen Wu, a senior official with the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said coronavirus vaccines developed in China may be made available to the general public, as phase three of clinical trials is proceeding as planned.

Mr Wu, during an interview with state television, revealed that she had also contracted the coronavirus, but had not experienced abnormal symptoms in recent months after taking a vaccine herself. experimental in April.

A unit of the state-owned pharmaceutical giant, the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) and the US company Sinovac Biotech are developing the three vaccines as part of the state's emergency use program.

Nine vaccine candidates are currently in the final stages of human trials, although some have encountered difficulties recently, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford temporarily halted clinical trials last week after a volunteer developed a unexplained illness