DUBAI, July 16 — Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm has begun Phase III clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine in Abu Dhabi using up to 15,000 volunteers, the government in the capital of the United Arab Emirates said today. The human trial is a partnership between Sinopharm’s...
Thursday, 16 Jul 2020 07:07 PM MYT
The human trial is a partnership between Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group , Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing company Group 42 and the Abu Dhabi Department of Health. The trial will test two vaccine strains and a placebo. Two doses three weeks apart will be administered and volunteers followed for a year, said Nawal Alkaabi, head of the UAE’s Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.
The UAE says it has conducted more than 4 million coronavirus infection tests on a population of around 9.6 million. It has recorded almost 56,000 cases of infection and 335 deaths.
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