PUTRAJAYA: A vaccine for Covid-19 is predicted to be obtainable in the market in about a 12 months as checks and analysis on it’s nonetheless on the early section, in line with Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He stated the World Health Organisation (WHO) are nonetheless wanting into a few compounds and analysis to develop a vaccine for this illness.
“So it will take probably about a year or a year and a half before we can get the vaccine in the market.
“Research is ongoing and hopefully by doing the research, we can get the vaccine as soon as possible,“ he said at the daily Covid-19 media briefing, here today.
In another development, Dr Noor Hisham said the Health Ministry (MOH) had accepted several Covid-19 patients who have recovered as volunteers for research on blood plasma.
“Two or three patients who have recovered are coming forward to contribute to science and technology.
“They are donating their blood to help MOH carry out research and for science to look at the viscosity of antibodies (which will be used to treat Covid-19 patients),” he stated.
He added that MOH would earlier display blood donors (former sufferers) to make sure they’re freed from the virus and of different infections comparable to Hepatitis C and so forth.
MOH will even conduct Covid-19 take a look at on the blood donors to make sure they’re actually freed from the virus.
“After that, MOH will take blood from them and separate it into red blood cells and plasma. The plasma will later be sent to IMR (Institute for Medical Research) to study its antibody viscosity.
“The procedure will be repeated after two weeks. If the antibody viscosity is high, then MOH may use the plasma from the patient to treat other patients,” he added. – Bernama
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