A vaccine opposed to the new coronavirus could be commercially available in the Philippines until the last quarter of 2021, authorities said Friday, as cases in the country were shown to be about to cross the 300,000 mark.
Rolando Enrique Domingo, director of the Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said it would be the “best case. “
“It is imaginable that until April 2021 we will have an approved vaccine,” Domingo said, stressing that the schedule could be met as long as clinical trials end in December or January.
“Once completed, they can initiate the registration procedure with the FDA,” he said.
Several Chinese pharmaceutical companies, run through SINOVAC Biotech and Sinopharm, received the green light for testing here. In addition, government officials recently said that the Russian vaccine opposed to Sputnik V would begin here in October.
Apart from these, 17 vaccine developers have worked with Filipino fitness officials and six have signed confidentiality agreements that would include a percentage of the effects of their trials, the government said.
Meanwhile, 12 hospitals have been decided as Filipino sites for the World Health Organization (WHO) solidarity trial to determine whether medicines delay coronavirus progression or survival.
Science and Technology Secretary Fortunato dela Pea said recruitment of trial participants can begin after the UN fitness firm publishes its protocols and a list of vaccines to be used.
Patients, he said, would be chosen from five to 10 villages across the country who have a higher number of COVID-19 cases.
“This is because we need to verify the effectiveness of the vaccine and we will do so in stages where the rate of occurrence or attack is high,” dela Pea said. it’s the only time we can start recruiting patients. “
The Philippines has the number of cases shown of COVID-19 in East Asia and is only one time for Indonesia in the number of deaths. On Friday, the Philippine Department of Health reported 69 new deaths, bringing the total to 5,196. There were also 2,630 new infections, bringing the national total to 299,361 cases.
Globally, there have been more than 32. 2 million COVID-19 infections and nearly 984,000 deaths, according to disease experts at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
Previously, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said hopes for China and Russia to expand vaccines and share them with the Philippines increased.
“If I had to check to respond to how quickly it develops, the dynamic is that we are in calm waters,” Duterte said, referring to a vaccine.
Much of the Philippines remains blocked even after Duterte and his company have convenient quarantine protocols. Shops, restaurants and other companies have been allowed to reopen after calls from commercial teams seeking a severe economic downturn.