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Coronavirus vaccine update: Israel begins human trial, Moderna preps launch Two coronavirus vaccine frontrunners - Pfizer and Moderna - are set to release late-stage and Phase-II results this month. Catch latest coronavirus vaccine updates here
Covid vaccine update: There are at least 182 coronavirus vaccine candidates in pre-clinical or clinical-trial stages across the globe. Of these, nine are in final human-trial stage. In India, two vaccines are in Phase-II trials and one (the Oxford University one) in Phase-III. While experts have said vaccines are likely to reach the general public in the March-April 2021, drug makers have been more ambitious with their calculations. Firms like Moderna Inc and Pfizer are eyeing the emergency-use authorisation route to launch their shots by year-end.
According to a study, India has used its manufacturing capabilities to pre-order 600 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and is negotiating for another billion. The United States, on the other hand, has pre-ordered more doses. Covid-19 has infected over 46.8 million people across the globe so far and has claimed nearly 1,205,000 lives. With the virus spreading rapidly and re-surfacing in Europe, every hope is now pinned on coronavirus vaccine development. Coronavirus vaccine progress Israel Covid vaccine update: Human trials for coronavirus vaccine underway Israel began human trials on November 1 for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate (BriLife) which, if successful, could be ready for use by general public by the end of next summer. "We are in the final stretch," said Shmuel Shapira, Director General of the Israel Institute for Biological Research...Read More