MADRID (Reuters) – Johnson and Johnson’s Janssen unit will begin phase II trials for its COVID-19 vaccine in Spain, the Netherlands and Germany next week, Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said Friday as the U.S. pharmacist prolonged its experimental vaccine.
The event will last two months and will have 590 participants in the 3 countries, adding another 190 people in Spain, Illa said at a press conference in Madrid.
More than 150 prospective vaccines are being developed and tested internationally to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic, and 30 were added in human trials. To date, there are no coVID-19 vaccines approved, with the exception of a vaccine approved in Russia prior to large-scale trials.
(Report through Nathan Allen and Jose Elas Rodroguez; Editing through Bethlehem Carreo)
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