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July 11, 2021 Pakistan has earned $10 million by conducting first-ever Phase-III clinical trials for the single-dose Chinese Covid-19 vaccine CanSino Bio at five leading public and private health facilities in the country, and now the National Institute of Health (NIH) is going to earn 30 million dollars within a year by co-manufacturing the same vaccine after technology transfer from China, officials said on Saturday. “Phase-III clinical trials of the CanSino Biologics single-dose Covid-19 were the first-ever such trials conducted in Pakistan and we earned $10 million by conducting these trials at five centres in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Now we are being approached by companies from the UK, Korea and Japan, as well as from China for conducting Phase-III clinical trials of several more vaccines, which can earn us huge revenue and foreign exchange,” said Major General Aamer Ikram, executive director of the National Institute of Health Islamabad, at a health confe ....