Medical experts across the globe are racing against time to develop a COVID vaccine which would give the world a shot at curbing the pandemic.
Lisa Taylor receives a COVID-19 vaccination from RN Jose Muniz as she takes part in a vaccine study at Research Centers of America on August 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida.
The last phase, Phase 3, is a “large-scale efficacy trial” of the vaccine, according to Tamesis. The vaccine now will be tested on thousands of volunteers. Sponsored by Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, Sinovac targets to test its vaccine on 8,870 participants. Trial on the candidate vaccine of Wuhan Institute of Biological Products is also being conducted in the United Arab Emirates, particularly in Abu Dhabi.AstraZeneca started its trials for its ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine or MenACWY vaccine on March 1, 2020.
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