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2020-03-21, 8:23 AM (Source: TeleTrader)

China injected first COVID-19 vaccine to volunteers

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The first coronavirus vaccine has been given to volunteers in China on Saturday, according to the Global Times' report.

Three groups of volunteers from Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, have been given a chance to participate in the vaccine trials.

"A single-center, open and dose-escalation phase 1 clinical trial for recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine (adenoviral vector) in healthy adults aged between 18 and 60 years," a Chinese document stated, describing the vaccine tests.

Baha Breaking News (BBN) / ND