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Published 23 Apr, 2020 01:27am

Chinese pharma offers to conduct clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine in Pakistan

A major Chinese pharmaceutical company has invited the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, to collaborate in conducting clinical trials of its recently developed inactivated vaccine for Covid-19 in Pakistan.

"A successful clinical trial in Pakistan will make it one of [the] first few countries for the launch of a Covid-19 vaccine," said the Chinese firm's general manager in a letter to the NIH executive director.

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