CHINA-ECONOMY: TURKEY SAYS EFFICACY OF CHINESE ANTI-COVID VACCINE IS 91.25 PER CENT
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Officials in Ankara said (December 24) that Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate has shown an efficacy rate of 91.25% in Turkey, as per the latest results of clinical trials of the Chinese-developed shot outside China. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca and Professor Serhat Unal, a member of the government’s Covid-19 advisory board, reported the preliminary results of phase 3 trials at a news conference in Ankara. Unal added that the efficacy “is likely to increase” in the later stages of the trials, as the number of volunteers now administered a placebo is lower than the number of volunteers who have been administered the vaccine, known as CoronaVac.
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