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“China’s earliest COVID-19 vaccine receivers’ antibody levels remain rather high, according to the results of serum monitoring, which indicated that the vaccine may offer long term protection, ” Zeng Guang said Friday at China’s State Council Information Office’s media conference .

Positive immunization news at Friday’s news media conference. (Photo: www.scio.gov.cn)

The chief scientist of epidemiology from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention believes that there is more work to do. “It has been only nine months since we discovered the coronavirus disease, thus we need to do more research to make sure of the accurate protection time for each vaccine,” Zeng said. 

(Compiled by Ma Xiaoxi)