All the three COVID-19 vaccine candidates Vietnam is developing are currently in the stage of clinical trials, and if they are qualified as assessed by the ethics and advisory councils, the Ministry of Health (MoH) will grant licenses, an official has said.
Vietnam's homegrown Covivac COVID-19 vaccine is being injected to volunteers Thai Binh province’s Vu Thu district from August 18 during its second phase clinical trials.
Vietnam's homegrown Covivac COVID-19 vaccine is being injected to volunteers from the communes of Minh Lang, Viet Hung and Bach Thuan in Thai Binh province’s Vu Thu district from August 18 during its second phase clinical trials.
The Prime Minister has decided to use over 8.8 billion VND from the national COVID-19 vaccine fund to support the first and second phase of clinical trials of COVIVAC vaccine, which has been developed by the Health Ministry’s Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC) since May 2020.
Vietnam’s second homegrown candidate vaccine Covivac has began the second stage of clinical trials with the screening testing to choose qualified volunteers.
Vietnam’s second homegrown candidate vaccine Covivac began the second stage of clinical trials in the northern province of Thai Binh’s Vu Thu district on August 11 with the screening testing to choose qualified volunteers.
Vietnam’s second homegrown Covivac candidate vaccine will begin the second stage of clinical trials in the northern province of Thai Binh’s Vu Thu district on August 10.
The Ministry of Health (MoH), in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), organised a webinar on August 4 to consult experts on the evaluation of clinical research data and emergency approval of COVID-19 vaccines.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the Health Ministry has directed units to study and clinically test made-in-Vietnam vaccines while seeking technological transfer from abroad to proactively fight the pandemic in the country.
Six volunteers participating in the human trials of Vietnam’s second homegrown candidate vaccine Covivac got their second shots of the vaccine on April 12.
Two COVID-19 vaccines Nano Covax and Covivac, which were studied and developed in Vietnam, have proved to be safe and effective in the first and second clinical trials.
The Khanh Hoa-based Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals under the Ministry of Health in coordination with PATH organisation has jointly studied a COVID-19 vaccine called Covicac, which uses egg-based vaccine production technology.
Fifteen more volunteers have been inoculated with Vietnam’s second homegrown candidate vaccine COVIVAC on March 23 as part of its ongoing human trials.
Six out of 120 volunteers have been injected with Vietnam’s second homegrown candidate vaccine COVIVAC, as human trials began at the Hanoi Medical University on March 15.
Vietnam’s second home-grown COVID-19 vaccine, COVIVAC, produced by the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals has showed promising results against the original virus and new variants of SAR-CoV-2 in Vietnam, India, and the US, according to a pre-clinical trial study.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) on February 27 received 20 billion VND (866,620 USD) from conglomerate Vingroup for the clinical trials of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine COVIVAC.
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