Tashkent, March 2 -- The Uzbek authorities said on Monday that they have registered a vaccine against a new type of coronavirus manufactured by the Chinese company Anhui Zhifei Loncom Biofharmaceutical. The Center for Advanced Technologies under the Ministry and the Research Institute of Virology are now conducting phase III clinical trials of the vaccine.

"Given the active participation of the Ministry of Innovative Development and the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan in trials of this vaccine, as well as their contribution to clinical research, Uzbekistan was recognized as a co-author of the vaccine. The vaccine will be sold in the country under the name ZF-UZ-VAK 2001,"- the Ministry of Innovative development said.

Uzbekistan has als...