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Oxford University hoping to get the Covid-19 vaccine ready by September

Last month, researchers at Montana's National Institutes of Health inoculated several rhesus macaque monkeys with small doses of the Oxford vaccine

Medics work on samples collected from media professionals for COVID-19 tests, at a special testing centre set up by the Delhi government. Photo: PTI
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Medics work on samples collected from media professionals for COVID-19 tests, at a special testing centre set up by the Delhi government. Photo: PTI

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As the world is scrambling to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, Oxford's Jenner Institute, which got a headstart following the progress in its clinical trials, is now hoping that first few million doses of the vaccine could be made available by September -- which is months ahead of projections of when such a vaccine would be ready.

While most teams have had to start with small clinical trials, scientists at Jenner Institute have made a promising start on developing the vaccine, having already proved in earlier trials that similar immunisation was safe for humans, The New York Times (NYT) reported.

As a result,