Chinese COVID- 19 vaccine trial enters follow-up stage.

LAHORE -- Vice-Chancellor University of Health Sciences ( UHS) Professor Javed Akram has said that complete eradication of corona cannot be achieved unless 75 per cent of the population is vaccinated.

'Our target in Pakistan should be to vaccinate 15 to 20 million people,' he said while addressing the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UHS and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) on Thursday regarding the follow-up stage of Phase III trial of Chinese COVID- 19 vaccine.

Prof Javed Akram said that five billion people would have to be vaccinated for the complete eradication of the epidemic all over the world. He said that it was a historic occasion that corona vaccine was being tested on humans in Pakistan.

'This trial has proved that there can be world-class research in Pakistan', he said, adding, a total of 18,000 people had volunteered for the Phase III trial of the Chinese vaccine 'Can Sino'. Among them more than 5,000 volunteers registered at the university. He said that vaccine research usually took around nine years to complete but given its urgent need, for the first time in history, the research period was shortened and completed within five months. He claimed that the results of this research...