The Philippines is expected to join clinical trials for the development of a vaccine against the COVID-19 in the latter part of 2020, Malacañang said. | KAguilarINQ
The country will be collaborating with the Chinese Academy of Science in Guangzhou Institute of Health, SinoPharma in Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, and Beijing Institute, the IATF said.
A working group led by the DOST will work with the Department of Health , the Food and Drug Administration , the World Health Organization , and the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine on the progress of the clinical trials. “The President wants to save the life of each and every Filipino; and thus places great interest [in] these clinical trials,” Roque said.
Meanwhile, the establishment of the DOST-proposed Pharmaceutical Development Center and the Virology Science and Technology Institute of the Philippine may start this year once approved by the President, Roque said. “If and once approved by PRRD, both can start in 2020, with the Pharmaceutical Group and the Virology Research Group evolving out of DOST’s Industrial Technology Development Institute ,” Roque said in a separate statement., even bringing it up during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit.ADVERTISEMENT
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