Principal Staff Officer of Armed Forces Division Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman speaks at the 18th general meeting of BNACWC at the conference room of AFD on Tuesday. ISPR photo

Bangladesh in no hurry to trial Chinese vaccine

News Desk :Bangladesh is in no hurry to start a late-stage human trial of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, according to the country’s top health officials.The Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) approved the phase 3 trial of Sinovac’s vaccine candidate, known as CoronaVac.But due to the novelty of the process, health authorities are awaiting approval from the government’s top brass before flagging off the trials, reports bdnews24.com.The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,...

13 Aug 2020, 12:00 am