Oxford university starts enrolling 500 volunteers for virus vaccine trial

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Scientists from the University of Oxford have opened up their Covid-19 vaccines for clinical trial recruitments as part of a rapid vaccine response to the coronavirus pandemic. The trial, a collaboration between the university's Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group clinical teams, will recruit up to 510 volunteers, who will receive either the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine or a control injection for comparison.

The researchers, working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent Covid-19, said they have started screening healthy volunteers (aged 18-55) from Friday for their upcoming trial in the Thames Valley Region of England.

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