New China COVID Vaccine Arriving But COVAX Pledge May Need A Booster

China’s first domestically-developed recombinant protein vaccine for COVID-19 moves forward in late-stage trials in two countries.

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FIRST RECOMBINANT PROTEIN COVID VACCINE ARRIVING FROM ZHIFEI OF CHINA • Source: Shutterstock

The first made in China coronavirus vaccine based on a recombinant protein platform has been jointly developed by the Institute of Microbiology and Anhui Zhifei Longcam biotech, a subsidiary of Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Co. Ltd.

A filing by the Shenzhen-listed company shows that the vaccine is now under Phase III development and on the cusp of being registered in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, where a study conducted in December reportedly

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