TheNewsGuru

Tag: coronavirus vaccine

  • China’s first patent granted for COVID-19 vaccine

    China’s first patent granted for COVID-19 vaccine

    —

    by

    Bayo Millz
    in

    China’s first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine has been granted by the country’s National Intellectual Property Administration. The patent was jointly applied for by a research team with the Academy of Military Sciences and CanSino Biologics Inc., a Chinese high-tech biopharmaceutical company, said a report in People’s Daily. The team led by Chen Wei, a…

  • Just in: US begins first human trial of coronavirus vaccine

    Just in: US begins first human trial of coronavirus vaccine

    —

    by

    Femi Ajasa
    in

    The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials said on Monday. “The open-label trial will enrol 45 healthy adult volunteers ages 18 to 55 years over approximately 6 weeks,” the US National Institutes of Health said in a statement. “The first participant received…