China sets biosafety standards for coronavirus vaccine makers

China has issued temporary biosafety guidelines for Chinese pharmaceutical firms racing to come up with a vaccine for the pandemic coronavirus.The emergency standards apply to all facilities using pathogenic organisms to make vaccines but the five government agencies that issued the guidelines on Thursday stressed their application to coronavirus vaccine production plants.“Safe and effective vaccines are important guarantees for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus,” the agencies…

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