Germany approves third trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate


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  • Friday, 02 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: A June 24, 2020 handout photo received from biotech company IDT Biologika in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany, on July 28, 2020, shows an individual dose of the filled SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate. Hartmut Boesener/IDT Biologika/Handout via Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Unlisted biotech firm IDT Biologika has won approval from Germany's vaccine regulator to become the third German company after BioNTech and CureVac to launch human trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine in the country.

The trial of the vaccine, which has been developed with the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), will be conducted on 30 participants aged between 18 and 55 who will receive two vaccinations at four-week intervals.

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