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Thailand enters global race for vaccine with trials on monkeys

A laboratory baby monkey being examined by employees in the breeding centre for cynomolgus macaques at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand at Chulalongkorn University in Saraburi. – AFP pic, May 25, 2020.

THAILAND is conducting tests on macaque monkeys as it races to produce a cheaper, alternative Covid-19 vaccine it hopes will be ready by 2021, a top researcher said today. More than 100 candidate vaccines are currently in various stages of development around the world, at least eight of which are in clinical trials with humans, according to the World Health Organisation.

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