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To enable wide dissemination of news that is in public interest, we have increased the number of articles that can be read free, and extended free trial periods. document.write(currentYear); As the world searches for a way to end the coronavirus pandemic, the race is on to find and produce a vaccine. Anthony Fauci raises concern over Russian, Chinese vaccines. Here's a closer look at what wealthier countries are doing to ensure supplies for their own citizens, how that might affect other countries, how Canada might fare and what efforts are being made to distribute a vaccine more fairly. The Oxford Vaccine Group says it hopes to complete human trials on the hAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in September. If that works, says Marie-Paule Kieny, a virologist and director of research at INSERM, France’s national biomedical research agency in Paris, it’s possible that measles vaccine-manufacturing facilities could be used to make a COVID-19 vaccine, but she cautions that it’s likely that capacity would have to be increased so as not to disrupt the original focus. 3 Countries Starting Coronavirus Vaccine Trials in Global Race to Stop COVID-19 Before End of Year . All rights reserved. He said he thinks leaders, including Canada's, need to step up as well, by requiring that vaccines and treatments be made available at affordable prices to low- and middle-income countries if government funding was received for their development. The U.S. has a program called Operation Warp Speed, which aims to produce a vaccine faster than anyone else. And even some richer countries, including Canada, weren't always first in line if they didn't have their own manufacturing facilities. The country is pushing ahead with several vaccine prototypes and one trialled by the Gamaleya institute in Moscow has reached advanced stages of development and is about to pass state registration, officials said. CEPI says that there is no agreement yet on the principles or rules for a fair allocation system incorporated into contracts that can be consistently applied and enforced. After the outbreak of H5N1 in countries such as China, Egypt and Indonesia, WHO member states adopted a resolution known as the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework. During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, Australia was among the first to manufacture a vaccine, but did not immediately export it because it wanted vaccines for its citizens first, says Amesh Adalja of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, Maryland. More than 70 coronavirus vaccines are in the works. But the Gates Foundation did not provide further details when contacted for this story. The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which finances the trials, said he expects official registration of the vaccine to be complete “within ten days.” “If this happens in the next ten days, we will be ahead not just of the United States but other countries too, it will be the first registered coronavirus vaccine,” RDIF chief Kirill Dmitriev said in televised remarks. Here's why. Drug prices vary widely around the world, and the same treatment often costs many times more in other countries. Research facilities at CureVac in Tübingen, Germany: one of dozens of firms now working on a coronavirus vaccine. Iran is among the top ten countries in terms of vaccine production, according to head of Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute.
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