NSTworld “Volunteers of the Covid-19 phase one trial have already started receiving the vaccine.”
It comes after US health officials said last week they had started a trial to evaluate a possible vaccine in Seattle.
The 108 participants, aged between 18 and 60, will be tested in three groups and given different dosages. They are all residents of the central city of Wuhan – where the new coronavirus first emerged late last year. The vaccine trial announcements come amid an escalating feud between the US and China over the pandemic, with President Donald Trump enraging Beijing by speaking of the “Chinese virus.”
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