Corona vaccine ... China begins clinical trials and other countries continue to test

China has begun clinical trials of the vaccine for the emerging coronavirus, while other scientists in the United States, Germany, Russia and other countries are racing to invent the vaccine, amid expectations that the trials will continue until the end of the year.

"The volunteers for the first phase of the trials have started receiving the vaccine," said a participant involved in the government-funded project, adding that participants from 18 to 60 years old, all from Wuhan, will be tested in three groups and given different doses.

Chinese efforts to produce a vaccine began on March 16, the same day that the United States announced the start of experiments to assess a possible vaccine in Seattle, and is expected to continue until the end of the year.

And in Germany, the chairman of the Corvac company, Franz Farner Haas, said yesterday that people with corona can get the vaccine next fall, adding that after "the progress made by the company's scientists, the clinical trials of this vaccine will be launched next summer."

The University Hospital Institute in Marseille, France, revealed yesterday that the clinical trial confirmed the effectiveness of the drug hydroxychloroquine used to treat malaria in the treatment of people with coronavirus, and that the effect of this drug was enhanced by the drug azithromycin, which accelerates the recovery.

Commenting on the French news, US President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter saying that "taking both hydroxy chloroquine and azithromycin carries a real opportunity to be one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine," calling on the authorities concerned to put this drug on the market immediately.

In parallel, scientists in Russia are working to test six vaccines against the Corona virus, according to the government recently announced.

The World Health Organization announced last Wednesday a "solidarity experiment," a study with several countries participating in the analysis of untested drugs in order to speed up the search for possible treatments for the virus.

Participating countries have confirmed the experiment, namely Argentina, Canada, France, Iran, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Indonesia, and Bahrain.

On the other hand, Trump announced in a tweet today that Ford, General Motor and Tesla companies have given approval to start manufacturing respirators and other metal equipment, and called on these companies to speed up, and called on their managers to prove their efficiency.