Chinese Covid-19 vaccine V-01 enters phase-III trials in Philippines


An employee works at the Covid-19 vaccine trial production workshop at Livzon Pharmaceutical Group Inc in south China's Guangdong Province. - Xinhua

GUANGZHOU, Aug 30 (Xinhua): A recombinant Covid-19 fusion protein vaccine (V-01) developed and manufactured in China has been approved for phase-III clinical trials in the Philippines.

The V-01 vaccine was developed by the Institute of Biophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Livzon Pharmaceutical Group Inc. (LivzonBio) in south China's Guangdong Province.

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