JAKARTA - Indonesia plans to run clinical trials of several vaccines to fight surging cases of tuberculosis in 2024, with concerns the disease might affect economic growth, ministers said on June 10.
Three-quarters of the patients were in the productive age group and 45 per cent of all patients did not work, raising concerns that the spread of the disease is hurting economic activity, Human Development Minister Muhadjir Effendy told a government meeting with provincial leaders.Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said Indonesia plans to conduct a trial of TB vaccine developed by global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in July, involving 2,500 people.
“We’re also in the stage to conduct a clinical trial for an mRNA vaccine that is being developed by BioNTech that had founded Covid-19 vaccine for Pfizer,” Mr Budi said.
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