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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2023
Chinese scientists are 99% confident about coronavirus vaccine success

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TBS Report
30 May, 2020, 03:25 pm
Last modified: 30 May, 2020, 04:06 pm

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Chinese scientists are 99% confident about coronavirus vaccine success

Helen Yang, senior director of investor relations, said, "We are speaking to several European countries and I think did discuss with the UK as well. Currently it's a very preliminary stage for the discussion."

TBS Report
30 May, 2020, 03:25 pm
Last modified: 30 May, 2020, 04:06 pm
Scientists around the world are racing to develop a vaccine. Photo: Xinhua
Scientists around the world are racing to develop a vaccine. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese scientists, who are working to produce vaccine of the novel coronavirus are confident about the effectiveness about their vaccine, emphasising that they are "99% sure" of it's success.

Sinovac, a Beijing-based biotech company, currently has its coronavirus vaccine in stage 2 trials, with more than 1,000 volunteers participating, reports Sky News in an exclusive report after a trip to their facility.

The company also said it is in preliminary talks to hold stage 3 trials - the final part of the trials process - in the UK.

Luo Baishan, a researcher at Sinovac, expressed his opinion about the vaccine saying -

"Yes, yes. It must be successful… 99% [sure]."

Last month Sinovac published results in the academic journal Science which showed the vaccine, called CoronaVac, protects monkeys from infection by the coronavirus.

The biggest problem the company faces is the low number of Covid19 cases in China, which makes testing the vaccine in an epidemic situation difficult. As a result, the company is looking further afield for stage 3 trials.

Helen Yang, senior director of investor relations, said, "We are speaking to several European countries and I think did discuss with the UK as well. Currently it's a very preliminary stage for the discussion."

The company is pressing ahead with production, though, even as it continues research.

The aim of parallel tracks is that mass production of the vaccine can begin straight away, if the trials are successful and the vaccine gets regulatory approval.

It is currently building a commercial plant in another part of Beijing with the objective of delivering 100 million doses.

That number, large as it is, means limiting who gets the vaccine.

"It is our recommendation that it is not the whole population that gets the vaccine," Yang told Sky News.

"We are discussing this and recommending it to other countries as well.

"We are firstly targeting high-risk groups, for example, health workers or senior citizens, who may have a higher level of fatality rate. I think that will be the starting point. To be frank, the vaccine needs to be produced lot by lot."

And the vaccine won't be here soon. The stage 2 trials have months to run before Stage 3 can begin, Yang pointed out, and then the vaccine requires regulatory approval.

Asked whether she was sure of success, Yang replied, "It's very hard to say, very difficult to say at the moment. There are uncertainties, but the data: so far, so good."

There is a global race to come up with a Covid-19 vaccine - but questions remain about how it would be distributed, and whether countries should prioritise their own populations.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca, which is working with researchers at Oxford University, said the UK would be the first country to get access to the vaccine it is developing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged that any Chinese vaccine would be a "global public good", even though the practical results of that are unclear. EU leaders have made a similar commitment.

"We are already considering not only China but also the whole world, not only for conducting a trial but also how to supply a solution for countries including China and outside China." Yang said.

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