Coronavirus vaccine trials in Africa: What you need to know

Scientists in Africa explain that any trials would be properly regulated and so the scare stories should be ignored.

China says coronavirus vaccine trials to start around late April  RFIFastest coronavirus vaccine to submit for clinical trials around late April  CGTNChina's Vice Technology Minister Says Coronavirus Vaccine Submitted for Clinical Trials in April  Sputnik InternationalVaccination and the immune system | AFP Animé  AFP News AgencyChina: Coronavirus vaccine for clinical trials late April  Bangkok PostView Full coverage on Google News

>Scientists at the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and their colleagues from across the globe have finished doing the tuberculosis vaccine clinical trials and currently the research team is doing the analysis before releasing the results in the near future.

Two doctors sparked outrage after suggesting a vaccine for coronavirus could be tested in Africa.

Results of the first ever dengue vaccine clinical trials to have got to Phase-3 were published yesterday in the world’s most reputed science journal, The Lancet.

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What the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us about coronavirus drug trials  The Guardian1918 to COVID-19: 100 years of covering pandemics | The Listening Post (Feature)  Al Jazeera EnglishLaura Spinney: ‘We learn from each new outbreak, but not enough’  The Indian ExpressThe Lessons The Spanish Flu Taught The World  Times of OmanWhy We Keep Getting the Lessons of the Spanish Flu Wrong  POLITICOView Full coverage on Google News

Few clinical trials are done in Africa: COVID-19 shows why this urgently needs to change  The Conversation Africa

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