So, they need the Bangladesh government to invest money to run the safety trial, the Beijing-based drug maker added. It entirely depends on Sinovac, said Maleque when reporters recently asked him if the clinical trial of the vaccine in the country has stalled. But the health minister insisted Bangladesh will get the Sinovac vaccine anyway, even if the trial does not go ahead as planned. “But none of these will be possible without a clinical trial happening here,” said Dr Islam, a former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh was supposed to run the safety trial and Sinovac started working with it from April.

Source: bd News24 October 12, 2020 20:37 UTC