China says it will test the corona virus vaccine in April

SCMP quoted Dr. Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Center for Science and Technology Development of the National Health Commission (NHC) of China, reporting that Beijing is working on five methods of preparing corona virus vaccines. New and things are progressing rapidly. Some vaccines will be ready for emergency research or clinical trials in April.

However, Zheng noted that China is still working on a new corona virus (officially known as SARS-CoV-2) and the process is expected to face many difficulties.

In another development, a government official of the Covid-19 pandemic steering committee in Hubei Province Ding Xiangyang said that the application file for clinical trials of some new corona virus vaccines will be submitted in October. after.

According to Xinhua , in addition to research on anti-virus vaccines, China has applied a combination of oriental medicine and Western medicine to treat the symptoms of Covid-19 disease caused by corona virus.

According to Ding, China has reviewed more than 5,000 drugs and researched as well as clinical trials of treatment regimens in patients with Covid-19. Ding said that traditional Chinese medicine-based treatments have initially shown effectiveness in preventing patients with milder illness from becoming more serious.

China Daily cited data from the National Health Commission of China, which reported that on March 6, mainland China recorded 99 new cases of SARS-CoV-2, of which 74 were at Hubei epidemic center. .

It is the day with a record low number of new infections in mainland China since officials began publishing daily statistics from January 20 on the corvid-19 outbreak caused by the corona virus. Thus, by the end of March 6, China recorded a total of 80,651 cases of Covid-19.

Marvin Fry

Update 09 March 2020