Corona Vaccine by september?
Covid-19 (Coronavirus) latest updates: 💉 British pharma giant AstraZeneca has started to mass-produce its experimental AZD1222 vaccine , being developed by Oxford University, and plans to roll out up to two billion doses of a coronavirus vaccine in September. “So far we’re still on track… we are starting to manufacture this vaccine right now, and we have to have it ready to be used by the time we have the results,” AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot told BBC radio. “Our present assumption is that we will have the data by the end of the summer, by August, so in September we should know whether we have an effective vaccine or not,” he further said. AstraZeneca announced this week it had struck agreements with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, and the Serum Institute of India to double production capacity of the vaccine to two billion doses. The partnership with the Indian institute — one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturers...