Halting COVID-19 trial shows good oversight, says Wits' Prof Madhi

CAPE TOWN - A Wits University medical expert said that halting the country’s first coronavirus vaccine efficacy trial was in fact evidence of sound clinical practice.

Wits is collaborating with Oxford University, along with a biopharmaceutical company, to develop a vaccine. The Independent Data and Safety Monitoring Committee has recommended further vaccination of candidates be temporarily halted while it investigates the UK case which saw a trial participant fall ill.Professor Shabir Madhi, executive director of the vaccines and infectious diseases analytics research unit, said that pausing vaccination demonstrated the rigour of the oversight process.

"Assessing the safety of the vaccine is the reason why studies such as these are essential in South Africa before the widespread use of the vaccine."Download the EWN app to your iOS or Android device.

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