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🤞🏽🇮🇱We know there has been plenty of reports of countries being very close to finding a vaccine for COVID-19, but this news from Israel seems very promising.

Jpost reports: Israel is about to take a giant leap in the development of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the Defense Ministry said Thursday, announcing that the Israel Institute for Biological Research will begin testing its vaccine on humans by October.
“Experiments on humans should begin after the High Holy Days,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said after a visit to the institute. “First of all, I would like to thank you, the people in the Defense Ministry and the people at the institute, who are doing a fantastic job.”

The human trials would be conducted in collaboration with the Health Ministry and “according to all the processes required in terms of medical safety,” he said.

Prof. Shmuel Shapira, director-general of the IIBR, said the institute “set off six months ago” to develop the vaccine, adding that now it has “an excellent vaccine in hand.”

“We will start safety and efficacy trials after the holidays, but we have a product in hand,” he said.

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Coronavirus vaccine race: Israel to begin human testing by October

www.jpost.com

‘We will start safety and efficacy trials after the holidays, but we have a product in hand,’ says IIBR head Prof. Shmuel Shapira.

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