Canadian COVID-19 clinical trial scrapped after China wouldn’t ship potential vaccine


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A collaboration between a Chinese company and a Halifax research team to conduct the first clinical trials in Canada of a potential vaccine COVID-19 has been abandoned amid growing tensions between the two countries. The partnership between the National Research Council of Canada and CanSino Biologics was announced by the federal government in May . Advertisement A Canadian Center for Vaccinology team at Dalhousie University should work with CanSino to conduct the first Canadian clinical trials for a possible COVID-19 vaccine. The CanSino vaccine, called Ad5-nCoV, was already being tested on humans in China and has shown promising results. In...