translated from Spanish: Government at The invitation of China to participate in phase 3 of the Covid-19 vaccine: “It is a recognition”

The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, referred during this day to China’s offer, for Chile to participate in phase 3 of the process of creating the coronavirus vaccine. As he explained, the holder of the portfolio “what China is asking for or what China offers us, and we need to discuss it with Minister Couve, is for us to participate in the third phase of clinical trial so that one time that vaccine can be approved as a therapeutic means,” he said, alluding to the Minister of Science. “That means that it is research that must consider the effectiveness, safety of the vaccine and that must comply with the full law of rights and duties of patients, that must meet all the ethical standards that the country has set for this type of trial and that must comply with the approval of the ISP,” he said. However, Paris insisted that “this is not the first time Chile has participated in such studies, Chile was a pioneer for the development of the rotavirus vaccine (…) Chile has also participated in phase three studies of influenza vaccine development. That is, it is a recognition that makes another country the scientific quality of our country.” And he closed his intervention, clarifying that “it’s not that the vaccine is coming, there’s no vaccine yet. For one to be able to use a vaccine I explained several phases, this trial that China is inviting us is the phase 3 study that must be done in voluntary humans, but which must comply as I said, law of rights and duties, all ethical aspects”.

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