How health of volunteers participating in human trials of Vietnam home-grown Covid-19 vaccines?

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Volunteers participating in the second phase of human trials of Nanocovax, the first made-in-Vietnam Covid-19 vaccine have been in stable health conditions, according to the Military Medical University. There have been several people displaying mild reactions such as swelling at the injection site, muscle and joint pain, however, these reactions quickly disappear after rest. A total of 551 volunteers have received the second shot of the second phase including 280 people in Long An and 271 in Hanoi. The remaining 9 volunteers in Hanoi are scheduled to be vaccinated this week, VTC News reported.

A medical worker is injected with the Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: VTC News

According to the Military Medical University, based on the testing results of phase 1 and phase 2 to date, all experts are very optimistic to suppose that if everything goes well, the third phase of human trials of Nanocovax will be completed by the end of this year’s Q3, shortening 3 months compared to the previous plan. Nanocovax is expected to enter the third phase of human trial this May.

Evaluating the effectiveness, this unit said after finishing the phase 1 clinical trial, 100% of volunteers were safe and generated antibodies with high concentrations. Nanocovax is also proven effective against the virus variant detected in the UK.

Meanwhile, Covivac, the second home-grown Covid-19 vaccine has entered the first phase of human trials involving the participation of 65 volunteers.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Thi Van Anh, Director of Center of Clinical Pharmacology, Hanoi Medical University, 66 volunteers haven’t yet experienced severe reactions after administration. They have only displayed mild reactions such as pain at the injection site or headache.

Photo: Nhan Dan

The remaining 54 volunteers are slated to receive the vaccine in the near future. Giving the first jab is scheduled to be finished on April 18.

Vietnam has two other COVID-19 candidate vaccines being developed, which are VABIOTECH by the Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No 1, and POLYVAC by the Centre for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biologicals.

The country launched its inoculation campaign on March 8. As of April 7, as many as 53.953 Vietnamese have been administered the Covid-19 vaccine.

The vaccine used in the ongoing vaccination rollout in Vietnam is developed and manufactured by the British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca in collaboration with Oxford University. The first batch of 117,600 vaccine doses arrived in Vietnam on February 24.

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