China races to find virus vaccine, put scandals behind
A worker takes the temperature of people walking outside the Xinfadi meat wholesale market in Beijing. China has mobilised its researchers to produce a vaccine against the coronavirus. – AFP pic, June 13, 2020.
CHINA has mobilised its army and fast-tracked tests in the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine, but its labs also have an image tarnished by past health scandals to overcome. Six months after the first cases emerged in the city of Wuhan, China has moved quickly to develop a vaccine and is involved in several of the dozen or so international clinical trials currently under way.
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