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Safety of an Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (CoronaVac) in Children and Adolescents

A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled, Phase Ⅱb Clinical Trial, to Evaluate the Safety of the Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Vero Cell) in Healthy Population Aged From 3 to 17 Years.

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04884685
Enrollment
500
Registered
2021-05-13
Start date
2021-05-03
Completion date
2022-06-20
Last updated
2023-09-22

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Conditions

COVID-19

Brief summary

This study is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase Ⅱb clinical trial of an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (CoronaVac) manufactured by Sinovac Life Sciences Co. , Ltd.The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of the SARS-CoV-2 Inactivated vaccine in healthy children and adolescents aged 3-17 years.

Detailed description

This study is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled,phase Ⅱb clinical trial in children and adolescents aged 3-17 years. The experimental vaccine and placebo were both manufactured by Sinovac Life Sciences Co. , Ltd. A total of 500 subjects will be enrolled, including 100 children aged 3-5 years, 200 children aged 6-11 years and 200 adolescents aged 12-17 years. Each age group will be randomly divided into two groups in a 3:1 ratio and received two doses of experimental vaccine or placebo on on day 0 and day 28.

Interventions

600SU inactivated virus in 0·5 mL of aluminium hydroxide solution per injection

BIOLOGICALPlacebo

aluminium hydroxide solution only

Sponsors

Sinovac Life Sciences Co., Ltd.
Lead SponsorINDUSTRY

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Healthy children and adolescents aged 3-17 years; * The subjects and/or guardians can understand and voluntarily sign the informed consent form (For subjects aged 8-17 years, both subjects and guardians need to sign the informed consent form); * Proven legal identity.

Exclusion criteria

* Travel history / residence history of communities with case reports within 14 days; * History of contact with a SARS-CoV-2 infection (positive in nucleic acid test) within 14 days; * Have contacted patients with fever or respiratory symptoms from communities with case reports within 14 days; * Two or more cases of fever and / or respiratory symptoms in a small contact area of volunteers, such as home, office etc. within 14 days; * History of SARS-CoV-2 infection; * History of asthma, history of allergy to the vaccine or vaccine components, or serious adverse reactions to the vaccine, such as urticaria, dyspnea, and angioedema; * Congenital malformations or developmental disorders, genetic defects, severe malnutrition, etc.; * Autoimmune disease or immunodeficiency / immunosuppression; * Severe chronic diseases, severe cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes that cannot be controlled by drugs, liver or kidney diseases, malignant tumors, etc.; * Severe neurological disease (epilepsy, convulsions or convulsions) or mental illness; * Thyroid disease or history of thyroidectomy, spleenlessness, functional spleenlessness, spleenlessness or splenectomy resulting from any condition; * Diagnosed abnormal blood coagulation function (eg, lack of blood coagulation factors, blood coagulopathy, abnormal platelets) or obvious bruising or blood coagulation; * Immunosuppressive therapy, cytotoxic therapy, inhaled corticosteroids (excluding allergic rhinitis corticosteroid spray therapy, acute noncomplicated dermatitis superficial corticosteroid therapy) in the past 6 months; * History of alcohol or drug abuse; * Acute diseases or acute exacerbation of chronic diseases in the past 7 days; * Receipt of blood products within in the past 3 months; * Receipt of other investigational drugs in the past 30 days; * Receipt of attenuated live vaccines in the past 14 days; * Receipt of inactivated or subunit vaccines in the past 7 days; * Axillary temperature \>37.0°C; * Already pregnant (including a positive urine pregnancy test) or are breastfeeding, planning to get pregnant within 3 months; * According to the investigator's judgment, the subject has any other factors that are not suitable for participating in the clinical trial.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Safety index-incidence of adverse reactionsDay 0-28 after each doseIncidence rate of adverse reactions occured from the beginning of the vaccination to 28 days after the second dose.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Safety index-incidence of adverse reactionsDay 0-7 after each dose vaccinationIncidence rate of adverse reactions within 7 days after each dose
Safety index-incidence of serious adverse eventsFrom the beginning of the vaccination to 6 months after the second dose vaccinationIncidence rate of serious adverse events from the beginning of the vaccination to 6 months after the second dose vaccination.

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026