The trials will enroll approximately 30,000 adult volunteers at 80 sites in the US to evaluate if the candidate vaccine, known as AZD1222, can prevent symptomatic Covid-19
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COVID vaccine race: Six candidates enter late stage trials
IANS Amid the race to develop an effective vaccine against COVID-19 in record time, six candidates have now entered the late stage clinical trial, according to The New York Times vaccine tracker. The latest entrants in this crucial phase of vaccine development are Moderna and the one jointly developed by US-based Pfizer and German biotech […]
Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to ‘start reaching masses in India by 2021 first quarter’
IANS The Serum Institute of India (SII) will be making one billion doses of Covishield vaccine — the vaccine being developed in collaboration with Oxford University — over the next one year for India and other low-and-middle-income countries. SII CEO Adar Poonawalla told IANS in an interview that “by the first quarter of the next […]
Oxford vaccine for COVID-19 safe, shows encouraging results
The COVID-19 vaccine being produced by the Oxford Vaccine Group indicate no early safety concerns and induces strong immune responses in both parts of the immune system, the British university’s division said Monday.