Hundreds work against the clock for first made-in-Vietnam Covid-19 vaccine
By Anh Thu, Le Nga December 10, 2020 | 09:02 am GMT+7
Three vials of Nanocovax vaccine produced by Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Company to be injected on volunteers. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran.
More than 300 staff of a HCMC-based company have worked overtime for over six months on the first Covid-19 vaccine approved for human trials in Vietnam.
A representative of the Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Company said they began researching vaccine production in March as the Covid-19 epidemic turned into a pandemic.
In Vietnam, the situation had worsened since early March as many Vietnamese nationals returning from the U.S. and Europe and foreigners coming from the same regions were infected with novel coronavirus, prompting the government to impose a national social distancing campaign for more than three weeks and suspend all international flights.