Peruvian volunteer who received placebo has died – News

A volunteer who received a placebo in vaccine trials from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm against the new coronavirus in Peru, he died of Covid-19, the health authority and the researchers in charge of tests in Lima reported today.

“The participant’s death not related to vaccine since he received a placebo, “said Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in charge of clinical trials of the vaccine Sinopharmreported the news agency AFP.

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Previously, the same university center had announced the death of the volunteer as a result of pneumonia.

The 54-year-old woman, who was apparently in good health before receiving the doses last October, “received all the proper care to treat this disease and its complications and fought for her life for over a week, without it being able to beat the onslaught of itThe authority said in a statement.

The clarification on the case was obtained once “on a proposal from the regulatory body and with the authorization of the safety committee, the” blind “of the research product received by our participant has been opened,” added the Cayetano Heredia University. AFP.

The Peruvian government announced this month that it had acquired 38 million doses the potential vaccine of Sinopharm.

According to interim president Francisco Sagasti, one million doses of this Chinese vaccine are expected to reach Lima before the end of January or February to be vaccinated to half a million health workers and members of the security forces.

Clinical trials of Sinopharm They had been temporarily suspended on December 12 for a few weeks, after a health complication occurred in one of the volunteers, in this case a man.

On this occasion, a volunteer presented “neurological symptoms which could correspond to a complication called Guillain-Barré”, said Germán Málaga, principal investigator of the clinical trials of the vaccine.

The trial, which took place between September and December, involved 12,000 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 75.

Peru records 1.1 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and nearly 40,000 deaths since the pandemic broke out in March of last year.