S.Korea's COVID-19 test kit makers, vaccine makers fall after Pfizer vaccine report

Sugentech

10/11/2020 24:44

** Shares of South Korean Covid-19 test kit makers and
vaccine makers lose ground 
    ** Pfizer Inc's  PFE.N  experimental COVID-19 vaccine is
more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the
drugmaker said on Monday  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2HV0TR
    ** Shares of Seegene  096530.KQ , South Korea's top listed
COVID-19 test kit maker, falls 7.3%, its peer SugenTech
 253840.KQ  slumps 7.5%   
    ** Celltrion Inc  068270.KS , which is developing a COVID-19
treatment, falls 2.6%, Genexine  095700.KQ , also developing a
COVID-19 vaccine, slumps 7.5%     
    ** The broader KOSPI market  .KS11  was trading down 0.2%

 ((hyunjoo.jin@thomsonreuters.com; 82-2-3704-5685))