THE licensing of a Covid-19 vaccine, even for emergency use, must be based on sufficient scientific data, a Health Ministry official here said.
Nguyen Ngo Quang, Deputy Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Training, was speaking in response to reports that Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Joint Stock Company had called for an approval for the emergency use of its Covid-19 vaccine – Nanocovax, the most promising Vietnamese-made vaccine to date which has entered Phase 3 human trials – amidst the severe fourth wave of infections in the country.