Islamabad: Pakistan has become a vassal state of China in its mad quest to defeat a vastly superior India.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages across the world, China is making frantic efforts to devise a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Chinese are now using Pakistan as a laboratory of human guinea pigs to test its potential coronavirus vaccine. The human trials of this Chinese COVID-19 vaccine will be carried out in Pakistan.
Pakistan has started stage three clinical trials of a China-made Covid-19 vaccine, Executive Director of the country’s National Institute of Health (NIH) Aamer Ikram said on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference, the official said that the coronavirus vaccine will be administered to 8,000 to 10,000 volunteers across the country and its final results are expected to come out in about six months, Xinhua news agency.
After the results, Pakistan will start administering the COVID-29 vaccine to the general public.
He said that the coronavirus vaccine has already been declared safe on animals and there are high expectations that it will be proven safe for humans too.
Special Assistant to the country’s Prime Minister on National Health Services Faisal Sultan also briefed the media on the coronavirus vaccine, saying that if the clinical trial succeeded, it will not only benefit Pakistanis but the world.
Sultan said the trial of the coronavirus vaccine is a vital step for Pakistan because it will help in the capacity building of the country to prepare vaccines against other viral diseases.
The coronavirus vaccine has been approved for trial by the drug regulatory authority of Pakistan and it will be administered under the supervision of the NIH.
Pakistan has so far reported more than 306,000 coronavirus cases and 6,420 COVID-19 deaths.
