Malaysia could volunteer for next clinical trials of China’s Covid-19 vaccine, says Health D-G | Malay Mail

Friday, 24 Apr 2020 06:45 PM MYTHealth director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia is deciding whether it will volunteer for the third phase of the clinical trial for the Covid-19 vaccine in the near future. — Picture by Choo Choy May

“Perhaps we will volunteer Malaysia to do clinical research here during the third phase. Nonetheless, we need to look into the results of the second phase first, before deciding on it,” Dr Noor Hisham said during the daily press conference. “A lot of things have since been discussed with the Chinese team from a public health perspective, such as laboratorial identification of the virus as well as the whole genomic sequence, among others,” Dr Noor Hisham said.

“With yesterday’s extension of the MCO by the prime minister to May 12, we can hope that in the next one to two weeks the infection rate will decrease. Yet we should not let our guard down, lest this results in an increase of cases again,” he said.

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