Additional 12,000 volunteers get second Nano Covax vaccine shots in third trial phase
Research centres on July 27 began the injection of the second shots of COVID-19 Nano Covax vaccine for 12,000 volunteers as part of the third-phase human trials of the home-grown vaccine, according to the Military Medical University under the Ministry of National Defence.
Injecting the second shot of Nano Covax vaccine to a volunteer in Van Lam district, Hung Yen province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Research centres on July 27 began the injection of the second shots of COVID-19 Nano Covax vaccine for 12,000 volunteers as part of thethird-phase human trials of the home-grown vaccine, according to the Military Medical University under the Ministry of NationalDefence.
They are among 13,000 volunteers involving in the third trial phase, 1,000 of whom already received the second doses on July 22.
Lieutenant Colonel Associate Prof. Dr. Chu Van Men, Director of the Center forClinical Trials and Bioequivalence under the Military Medical University, said that all the volunteers, receiving onlythe 25mcg doses, are in stable health conditions.
Nano Covax has been developed by the Nanogen PharmaceuticalBiotechnology JSC based on recombinant DNA/protein technology from May 2020.
It went through the first phase trial from December 18,2020, and the second phase from February 26, 2021. The third phase started onJune 11, 2021.
Results from the first two trial phases showed that all volunteers developedantibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
The Ministry of Health and the NationalCouncil of Ethics in Biomedical Research on June 25 agreedwith the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City and the Military MedicalUniversity to speed up the third-phase clinical trial of thevaccine in which volunteers were expected to have received the first jabs byJuly 15 and the second shots by August 15.
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Injecting the second shot of Nano Covax vaccine to a volunteer in Van Lam district, Hung Yen province (Photo: VNA) 
