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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

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3 min read Last Updated : Apr 28 2020 | 10:16 AM IST

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,

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