Sinovac Phase 3 Trial Results Expected Next Week
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2020-12-17 HKT 05:38
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Government adviser and respiratory medicine expert Dr David Hui said on Wednesday that he expected the phase 3 clinical trial results of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine to be out on December 23.
The government announced last week that it had secured 7.5 million doses from the mainland firm as part of its procurement programme.
Dr Hui said if there were no problems with the trial results, the vaccine could be introduced here next month.
"At the moment Sinovac has published phase 1 and phase 2 data, showing the antibodies can develop in over 90 percent of the recipients," he said.
Dr Hui said that only when the company had good data would the vaccine be introduced in Hong Kong.
The government is making arrangements for three vaccines: Sinovac, Fosun BioNTech and Astrazeneca.
Dr Hui said the public wouldn't get to choose which vaccine they would get because this could lead to a shortage of one type of vaccine and a surplus of another.
He said any vaccine that was in surplus might therefore end up being wasted, as they have a shelf-life of about six months.
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