Shenzhen-Backed Covid-19 Vaccines Start Animal Tests
1 min readJun 9, 2020
ZHANG YUSHUO
(Yicai Global) June 9 — Some Covid-19 vaccine development projects the Shenzhen government supports have entered the animal testing stage, a city official said in a local TV broadcast today.
The tech and manufacturing hub on Hong Kong’s doorstep has set aside a CNY68.5 million (USD9.7 million) fund for 21 Covid-19-related medicine and vaccine research and development projects, said Liang Yongsheng, director of Shenzhen’s Science, Technology and Innovation Commission.
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