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Bangladesh's first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine gets clearance for human trial

Dhaka, Nov 24 (UNI/Xinhua) Bangladesh's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine has obtained ethical clearance for a human trial.
The Bangavax vaccine, developed by local pharmaceutical company Globe Biotech, on Tuesday received the clearance from Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) after the council reviewed all the documents on animal trials.
"We've got ethical clearance from BMRC for a human trial on up to 64 healthy adult participants," Mohammad Mohiuddin, a senior official at Globe Biotech, told journalists.
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