{"id":118556,"date":"2021-04-14T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118556"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:06:44","slug":"covid-19-mexico-to-begin-clinical-trials-of-vaccine-patria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118556","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Mexico to begin clinical trials of vaccine &#8220;Patria&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MEXICO CITY, April 14 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Mexico plans to begin phase 1 clinical trials of &#8220;Patria,&#8221; a locally-developed vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the National Council for Science and Technology said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phase 1 trials on humans follow initial testing on animals, and will be carried out between April and May with around 100 volunteers aged 18-55 who are completely healthy, said Maria Elena Alvarez-Buylla, director of the council, at a press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have the participation of scientists of the highest level, from both national and international universities,&#8221; said Alvarez-Buylla, who was accompanied by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and health authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Patria&#8221; vaccine has already demonstrated its effectiveness against the COVID-19 epidemic in pre-clinical tests on different species of animals, such as mice or pigs, Alvarez-Buylla said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the vaccine passes the phases of clinical trials in humans, it could be ready for use by the end of 2021, said Alvarez-Buylla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participating in the vaccine&#8217;s development are the Mexican Social Security Institute, the National Polytechnic Institute and privately-owned laboratory Avimex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico, which has COVID-19 vaccine purchase agreements with several global pharmaceutical firms, launched its vaccination drive against the virus in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the country has registered more than 2.2 million COVID-19 infections and over 200,000 deaths from the disease, the third-highest pandemic death toll in the world after the United States and Brazil. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, April 14 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Mexico plans to begin phase 1 clinical trials of &#8220;Patria,&#8221; a locally-developed vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the National Council for Science and Technology said. Phase 1 trials on humans follow initial testing on animals, and will be carried out between April and May with around 100 volunteers aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}