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He explained that the second batch of the test is scheduled to take place on August 28, where 150 volunteers will participate.
The other batches will undergo the tests until next year, while the results of the early batch from the clinical trials are expected to be done in October this year.
“Hopefully this will be completed in January or February,” he said.
The program was part of Phase 3 clinical trials jointly conducted by Indonesian vaccine manufacturer PT Bio Farma and biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech Ltd of China.
PT Bio Farma planned to produce up to 250 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine early next year after receiving 2,400 candidate vaccines from Sinovac.
(Writer: Jawahir Gustav Rizal | Editor: Jihad Akbar)
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