Chinese vaccine volunteer died of covid-19

A volunteer died from coronavirus that I had received the placebo vaccine made by chinese pharmaceutical Sinopharm in clinical trials conducted in Peru. The country expects a million doses of the drug to arrive before the end of the month.

“The death of the participant is not related to the vaccine since she received a placebo,” said the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in charge of clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine, in a statement.

Wife, 54 years old and was apparently in good health before receiving doses Last October, “he received all the treatment indicated to treat this disease and its complications and he fought for his life for more than a week, without being able to overcome the attack”.

As the University reports, “on a proposal from the regulatory body and with the permission of the safety committee, the ‘blind’ of the research product received by our participant has been opened.”

Confirming that the volunteer had received a placebo, the University reported that “the usual activities of the phase 3 clinical trial of the covid-19 vaccine will be maintained”.

The Peruvian government announced this month that it had purchased 38 million doses of the potential Sinopharm vaccine. Acting President Francisco Sagasti has said one million doses of the vaccine are expected to arrive in Lima before the end of January or February. The drug will be applied to half a million health workers and members of the security forces.

Sinopharm’s clinical trials were temporarily suspended on December 12 for a few weeks, after a health complication that occurred in one of the volunteers, in this case a man.

On this occasion, a volunteer presented “neurological symptoms which may correspond to a complication called Guillain-Barré”, indicated 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 registers 1.1 million confirmed cases of covid-19 and nearly 40,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic in March of last year.