Video: China presents potential vaccines against "Corona" for the first time

China has offered domestic vaccines against the Coronavirus as this country where the epidemic was discovered tries to improve its reputation.

High hopes are pinned on potential vaccines produced by the two Chinese companies, "Sinovac Biotech" and "Sinopharma", on display at a trade fair in Beijing this week.

None of them have been put on the market yet, but their producers hope that they will be approved after the end of the third phase trials, which are considered very important, early in the year.

A representative of "Sinovac" told AFP that his company "has completed building a vaccine factory" that can produce 300 million doses annually.

China, which is facing a barrage of criticism from countries around the world for its handling of the epidemic in the beginning, is trying to reformulate the events of the start of the spread of Covid-1.

State media and officials alike are promoting the progress made in producing local vaccines as a sign of Chinese leadership and resilience in the face of an unprecedented health threat to the global economy.

The potential vaccines offered are among about ten vaccines around the world that have entered the third phase of trials, which is usually the last step before approval by health authorities.

The company "Sinopharma" said it expects that the antibodies provided by its vaccine will last between one and three years, although the final result will not be known until after the end of the experiments.

The Chinese newspaper "Global Times" reported last month that "the price of vaccines will not be high."

The report, quoting the president of Sinopharma, said that the cost of each dose would be less than 1,000 yuan ($ 146).

And the New China News Agency (Xinhua) reported Monday that another potential vaccine developed by Chinese military scientists can deal with mutations of the Corona virus.

As of last month, it had already ordered at least 5.7 billion doses of vaccines under development around the world.

But the World Health Organization has warned that mass vaccinations against Covid-19 may not take place before the middle of next year.

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