Covid-19: ICMR bats for Oxford vaccine, WHO lists 3 more as frontrunners

According to the WHO draft, from a total of 70 candidate vaccines in the race, three leading vaccines which are in human testing phase

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday said that a potential vaccine called ChAdOX1 a" being developed by researchers at University of Oxford -- is the frontrunner in the race to take on the deadly Covid-19 pandemic which has infected over 2.3 million people globally and claimed over 160,000 lives.

Speaking at a daily media briefing in the national capital, Dr Raman Gangakhedkar who is the chief scientist of ICMR said that at least 70 groups of scientists across the world have been working towards a novel coronavirus vaccine and five groups have come into human trial phase --