Vietnam prioritizes Covid-19 vaccines for medics, diplomats
By Hoang Thuy, Viet Tuan February 2, 2021 | 09:01 pm GMT+7
A nurse prepares a shot of Vietnamese Covid-19 vaccine candidate Nanocovax during human trials in Hanoi, December 17, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
Doctors and other staff in frequent contact with Covid-19 patients or suspected infectees will be among the first to be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Other people on the priority list will be the elderly and those with chronic diseases that make them more vulnerable if they get infected, and officials in the diplomatic service, officials said at a government news briefing Tuesday.
Confounded by the problems Western nations are encountering in their Covid-19 vaccination programmes, the Philippines will look to Asian nations on how to inoculate millions of people against the deadly respiratory disease that has already claimed more than 10,600 Filipino lives.
10 students volunteer for second Vietnam coronavirus vaccine trial
By Chi Le January 21, 2021 | 03:09 pm GMT+7
Volunteers seek advice from medical staff before registering for the first phase of the human trials of Covivac vaccine, Hanoi, January 21, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Chi Le.
10 university students signed up Thursday to be vaccinated with Covivac in its first stage of human trials in February.
Covivac, produced by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals, is the second Vietnamese-made vaccine to be tested on humans after receiving approval from the Health Ministry. The first was Nanocovax of Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC that had entered trials last month.
Vietnam s 2nd coronavirus vaccine set to begin human trials next month
By Xuan Ngoc, Chi Le January 20, 2021 | 11:51 am GMT+7
Vials and boxes of Covivac, Vietnam s second Covid-19 vaccine, January 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Xuan Ngoc.
A Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals on Tuesday received approval from the Ministry of Health for human trials.
Covivac will be the second Vietnamese-made vaccine to be tested on humans after the Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC began trials last December of its Nanocovax.
The first phase of the trials will require 120 volunteers aged 18-59 and without underlying health conditions, infectious diseases or allergies, the health ministry said.
Vietnam Covid-19 vaccine generates high immune response: medical university
By Chi Le January 15, 2021 | 01:45 pm GMT+7
A male volunteer (L) prepares to be injected with the 25 mcg dose of the Nanocovax vaccine in Hanoi, January 14, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Thuy Hanh.
The second shot of Nanocovax, a Vietnamese Covid-19 vaccine, has proven safe and immunogenic, the Vietnam Military Medical University said after volunteers were vaccinated starting Thursday.
The second shot produces an immune response four to five times higher than the first, it said.
Ho Anh Son, deputy director of the university’s Institute of Biomedicine and Pharmacy, said researchers would need to monitor volunteers health from the next six months to a year to ascertain the stability and longevity of antibodies produced.