In all, 2 000 children from South Africa will participate in the trial testing the efficacy, safety and effectiveness of the CoronaVac. They are among the 14 000 people from five countries aged six months to 17 years.
The adolescent, who is a minor and thus cannot be named, is part of the first trial group in the country comprising children aged 12 to 17.
Sixty million of the two-dose vaccines have already been administered to 40-million children aged three to 17 years in China. More than one billion people worldwide have been vaccinated with CoronaVac.a study found that the CoronaVac was well tolerated and safe, and induced antibody responses in children and adolescents aged three to 17, and encouraged that further studies be conducted on this cohort.
Evaluations for safety will be conducted 30 minutes after the first dose is administered. It will then be followed by further evaluations seven days after vaccination and another evaluation on day 28.
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