CLINICAL trials are now well under way with the new 'made-in-Spain' Covid vaccine - 30 participants have been recruited and at least six of them now jabbed in a crucial step closer to a home-grown inoculation being on the shelves.
Hipra Laboratories in Girona (shown above) is developing a formula which uses two different Coronavirus strains, to increase immunity across the board and also to newer, more contagious and more aggressive types.
The first doses have been administered this week at Girona's Josep Trueta Hospital (third picture) and Barcelona's Hospital Clínic, according to Dr Marga Nadal, head of the Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI) and Dr Àlex Soriano, head of the infectious diseases unit at Hospital Clínic.
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