Chinese specialists are engaged in the development of a vaccine, which will be effective in various mutations of the coronavirus of a new type and better protect a person from all sorts of strains. This was stated on Saturday, the head of the Special Commission on Combating the Epidemic of the State Committee on Health Affairs of the PRC Academician Zhong Nanshan, TASS reports.
“Most often in China, the inactivated Sinovac and Sinopharm pharmaceutical vaccines are used,” he said, speaking in online mode at the Conference of the Chinese Institute of Engineering Sciences in Guangzhou (South China). – Now we have threw all the forces on the development of the drug, which will protect against the mutating virus. “
According to the expert, while it is difficult to determine exactly for what time after vaccination, Chinese vaccines are able to protect a person from coronavirus infection.
“At the current stage, about 50 types of vaccines are developed in our country, and in the world – more than 200. The question arises: which of these drugs is more advisable to refine? Can we correct efforts in this direction? These are important problems that We will soon have to decide, “said Zhong Nanshan.