The Chinese authorities have officially given permission to begin the clinical trials for the first vaccine ever composed in the country against the novel Coronavirus.
The deadly virus was renamed by the World Health Organization ( (WHO) to become (COVID-19).
China announces “great progress” in composing a new vaccine against the Coronavirus.
Beijing reveals when to start its clinical tests to prove the effectiveness of that vaccine.
On Tuesday, according to a report broadcast by the state-run TV, quoted a statement authored by senior officials of the country’s ruling Communist Party, said that a team of researchers led by Dr. Qin Wai, a Chinese academic have obtained the permission to start the clinical tests.
The report indicated that preliminary tests have confirmed that the vaccine, which was composed by the Chen Wai team, is safe and effective in fighting the deadly virus.
The expert team led by Chen Wai, a member of the Chinese Military Medical Academy, Major General of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and director of the Institute of Biological Engineering of the PLA, arrived on January 26 in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
The city was the source of the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
The WHO classified the Coronavirus as a pandemic.
The organization launched work on the study of the disease and sought to find ways to deter it.
The eminent Chinese scientist is currently presiding over a laboratory operating in the top-level biological protection system located in Wuhan.
The team is conducting vaccine experiments designed by the Chinese Academy scientists.
Chinese scientists have previously confirmed that they developed 8 different vaccines against the novel Coronavirus.
They said that some of those vaccines have proven effective after preliminary tests on mammals.
While more than 153,00 cases of the respiratory illness have been recorded globally as of Sunday, it is on the decline in China, demonstrating that the course of the outbreak there has been altered, according to WHO Representative in the country, Dr. Gauden Galea.
“It is an epidemic that has been nipped as it was growing and stopped in its tracks. This is very clear from the data that we have, as well as the observations that we can see in society in general,” he told UN News in the capital, Beijing, on Saturday.
“So that’s a big lesson: that the natural course of the outbreak does not need to be a very high peak that overwhelms health services. This lesson in containment, therefore, is a lesson that other countries can learn from and adapt for their own circumstances.”
