Oxford University’s lead developer of the Covid-19 vaccine said on Tuesday (july 21) that a vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but laments that there is no certainty however that it will happen.
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The AstraZeneca licensed vaccine, produced an immune response during early-stage trials.
Professor Sarah Silbert said: “The end of the year target for getting vaccine rollout, it’s a possibility.”
She also added that for that to happen, three things need to happen:
- It needs to work in late-stage trials.
- There needs to be large quantities manufactured.
- Regulators have to agfree quickly to license it for emergency use.
The scientists from Oxford had targeted a million doses of the potential vaccine to be produced by September.
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The World Health Organization remarked that AstraZeneca is one of the leading candidates in the search for a vaccine.