BEIJING: Nearly 60,000 people have been injected with China’s COVID-19 vaccines so far and no one has reported severe adverse reactions, a Chinese official told a press conference on Tuesday. Tian Baoguo, an official from the Ministry of Science and Technology, told reporters that China’s leading vaccine development with a total of 13 vaccines in clinical phases. Among them, four adenovirus vector and inactivated vaccines candidates have entered phase III clinical trials with volunteers spread across ten countries.
China is expected to produce up to 610 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this year, Zheng Zhongwei, head of China’s coronavirus vaccine development task force said at the presser, adding output will grow next year.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN exchange item
