The National Institute of Health’s officials said Wednesday Pakistan would begin the in-house local production of CanSinoBio’s coronavirus vaccine from next month.
Chinese experts are also present in Islamabad to help in the preparation of the vaccine, officials said, adding NIH had started the venture in collaboration with a Chinese company.
The NIH officials told that the plans to prepare CanSinoBio’s coronavirus vaccine have been done, while the raw material for the vaccine would arrive at Pakistan in early May.
It is pertinent to mention here that CanSinoBio’s officials had trained NIH experts to prepare vaccine doses.
The spokesperson said they were hopeful that the single-dose vaccine would be available by the end of May for public inoculation.