The number of daily passenger flights in China has rebounded to 80% of pre-coronavirus levels, China’s aviation regulator said on Friday, as the aviation industry recovers from the plunge in travel demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On July 23, Chinese airlines operated 13,059 passenger flights, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.

Daily passenger traffic was nearly 70% of the level seen last year, with load factors, a measure of how well airlines are filling available seats, averaging 73.57%.

The global aviation industry is closely watching capacity in China as a harbinger of demand recovery trends.

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A coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) could be ready for public use by the end of this year, state media reported on Wednesday, ahead of a previous expectation it may become available in 2021.

Sinopharm Chairman Liu Jingzhen told state broadcaster CCTV the company expects to finish late-stage human testing within about three months.

Sinopharm’s unit China National Biotec Group (CNBG), which is responsible for two coronavirus vaccine projects, said in June the shot may not be ready until at least 2021 as a lack of new infections in China made it difficult to find people to test it on.

But China has since found alternative trial sites abroad, overcoming some of the obstacles it faces in the global race to produce a vaccine to fight a pandemic that has killed over 600,000 people globally.

Sinopharm’s experimental shot has entered a Phase III trial involving around 15,000 participants and two vaccine strains in the United Arab Emirates.

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Though the COVID-19 situation in China has been largely eased, Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been actively participating in the development of vaccines, with some already completing early trials and anticipating market entry by the end of the year, ahead of schedule.

Liu Jingzhen, chairman of China National Pharmaceutical Group (SinoPharm), said in a recent media interview that the results of phase I and II clinical trials were very positive and without serious side effects.

"SinoPharm was approved at the end of June to begin international phase III clinical trials and [the vaccine] could be on the market by the end of the year," Liu said, adding that phase III trials should be completed in about three months and are in the final stages of approval. 

This came after a World Health Organization expert said on Wednesday that researchers are making good progress in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021.

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China’s attempt at making a vaccine to fight the SARS-CoV-2, better known as Covid-19, is moving along nicely with phase two trials showing an immune response in the majority of patients.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, trial of the vaccine known as Ad5 was conducted in the coronavirus’ home town of Wuhan, China. The vaccine was developed by CanSino Biologics. The company’s shares rose 1.74% on Tuesday and are up 183% year-to-date.

Healthy adults aged 18 years or older and who were SARS-CoV-2 infection-free were eligible to participate in the test. Some 603 volunteers were randomly assigned to receive either the vaccine in different doses, or a placebo. They did not know which one they were getting. The injections were given in mid-April.

“The phase 2 trial adds further evidence on safety and immunogenicity in a large population than the phase 1 trial,” Professor Fengcai Zhu from Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention told the People’s Daily on Tuesday. Phase three is underway.

The Lancet published this takeaway on Monday, in case you missed it, as I did:

“The Ad5-vectored Covid-19 vaccine...is safe, and induced significant immune responses in the majority of recipients after a single immunization,” the report authors wrote.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/07/21/china-coronavirus-vaccine-by-cansino-seems-to-be-working/#1fcbf83f5161

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China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech’s (22UAy.F) (BNTX.O) experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (600196.SS) (2196.HK) said on Thursday.

The potential vaccine is one of the two most advanced candidates that BioNTech is working on with its partner Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and they received “fast track” status this week from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which is designed to speed up the regulatory review process.

Fosun Pharma said in a filing that a unit will initiate a Phase I clinical trial of BNT162b1 “as soon as possible once it is ready”.

It is licensed to exclusively develop and commercialize COVID-19 vaccine products developed by using BioNTech’s mRNA technology in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-china/china-gives-the-go-ahead-for-human-trials-of-biontechs-covid-vaccine-candidate-idUSKCN24H04O

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China reported one new confirmed COVID-19 case for the mainland as of the end of July 15, down from six a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Thursday.

The new case was an imported infection involving a traveller from overseas. All six cases reported a day earlier were also imported infections.

Beijing reported no new cases for the tenth consecutive day.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in mainland China to date is 83,612. The death toll remains unchanged at 4,634.

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Beijing reported no new confirmed domestically transmitted Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases on Saturday, the municipal health commission said Sunday.

This marked that the Chinese capital city had reported no new confirmed domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases for six consecutive days.

No asymptomatic cases or suspected cases were reported.

A total of 11 patients were discharged from hospital after recovery on Saturday in the city, the commission said in a daily report.

From June 11 to July 11, the city reported 335 confirmed domestically transmitted cases, of whom 240 were still hospitalised and 95 discharged from hospital after recovery.

There were 21 asymptomatic cases under medical observation, the commission said.

Meanwhile, there were also no new confirmed, asymptomatic or suspected cases of the virus were reported in central China's Hubei Province on Saturday, the provincial health commission said Sunday.

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2020/07/12/covid-19-beijing-zero-cases-for-sixth-day-hubei-stays-clean-of-virus

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Beijing has further eased travel restrictions after five days in a row of no new coronavirus cases in the Chinese capital.

Beijing municipal government spokesman Xu Hejian said on Saturday that people could enter and leave the capital freely without being tested for the coronavirus if they were from “low-risk” areas.

All of the country’s medium and high-risk areas are in Beijing, so the easing means that people from outside Beijing can freely enter the capital without swab tests.

Just over a week ago, authorities announced that residents from “low-risk” areas in Beijing could leave the city without having to provide results of a coronavirus test. But strict controls remained on people from medium and high-risk areas.

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Chinese vaccine developer CanSino Biologics is in talks with Russia, Brazil, Chile and Saudi Arabia to launch a Phase III trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its co-founder said on Saturday.

China’s success in driving down COVID-19 infections has made it harder to conduct large-scale vaccine trials, and so far only a few countries have agreed to work with it.

“We are contacting and Russia, Brazil, Chile and Saudi Arabia (for the Phase III trial) and it’s still in discussion,” Qiu Dongxu, executive director and co-founder of CanSino, told an anti-viral drug development conference in Suzhou, in eastern China.

He said its Phase III trials were likely to start “pretty soon,” and the company plans to recruit 40,000 participants for the tests.

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