Participants will be given the Sinovac vaccine, with scientists setting out to evaluate its safety and efficacy in protecting against COVID infection.
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's first paediatric trial of a COVID-19 vaccine has enrolled its first participants.The parents of the trial participants have to give informed consent before their children are enrolled.
The trial's principal coordinator, Doctor Sanet Aspinall said after that, the children would receive two doses of either the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine or a placebo, scheduled 28 days apart. Aspinall explained that most of the trial sites contacted adults already on their databases to see if they wanted to enrol their children in the study.
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