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The Covid drug developed in Spain should be ready for market by the middle of this year
The Spanish coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Hipra pharmaceutical company in Girona, is quickly moving towards phase III trials and already shows promising results against the Omicron variant, the Minister of Science and Innovation announced on Tuesday January 4 after a trip to the facilities.
Last November, Hipra received authorisation to begin the next step of its clinical trials, which were focused on confirming the safety of the drug when used as a booster and establishing that the vaccine produced a prolonged immunity against Covid.
“Hipra has told us that the vaccine is showing good results against Omicron in the studies carried out so far,” the minister revealed. “Therefore, if it was already effective against previous variants such as Delta, we now know that it has good resistance against the new variant.”
The Spanish vaccine will initially be marketed as a booster dose for those who have previously recovered from Covid and people who are double jabbed. The Hipra vaccine has several advantages over others, such as not requiring any special preparation and only needing to be stored at between two and eight degrees, so “if it comes out, it would be the best vaccine that would exist,” the minister concluded.
If approved by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS), Hipra could begin the next stage of trials in the second half of January, with 3,000 volunteers in 15 hospitals in Spain and other European countries. This phase is the last before commercialisation and, if all goes well, the pharmaceutical company expects the vaccine to be ready in the second quarter of this year and hopes to produce 600 million doses in 2022 and double that number by 2023.
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