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Chinese army to serve as guinea pig in vaccine for covid-19

Isaura Almeida

China authorizes vaccination of the military. Vaccine was developed by the Military Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese pharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics.

The world is literally looking for a vaccine for covid-19, and China is preparing to lead the race to cure the pandemic it gave rise to. For this, it approved the internal use of the vaccine in the Army, developed by the Military Academy of Medical Sciences and the Chinese pharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics. It is the first to pass the testing phase and applied to humans,

The Chinese military will thus be guinea pigs for a vaccine that uses the molecular cloning of covid-19, a genetic engineering technique also known as recombinant DNA, and was approved for Chinese “military use only”, on June 25, by the Military Commission Central, according to local press. Approval is valid for one year.

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