HKU Gets Green Light For Nasal Covid Vaccine Trials

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2020-09-09 HKT 19:19

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  • The State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases of HKU's Department of Microbiology has been working on the vaccine with Xiamen University and Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy. File photo: RTHK

    The State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases of HKU's Department of Microbiology has been working on the vaccine with Xiamen University and Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy. File photo: RTHK

The University of Hong Kong says mainland authorities have allowed clinical trials of a nasal spray vaccine for Covid-19 it has been developing with mainland institutions.

The State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases of the university's Department of Microbiology has been working on the vaccine with Xiamen University and Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy.

It says it is the only nasally-administered vaccine against the disease to be allowed for clinical trials so far by the National Medical Products Administration.

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