Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has partnered with Oxford University to help develop and distribute the vaccine being researched by the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group.
Live samples in test tubes are held in a container Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 22, 2020.The U.K. will know by July whether its Covid-19 vaccine is effective, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said Thursday.
AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot told BBC Radio 4's "Today" show that the company would know within months whether the coronavirus vaccine was effective. Soriot added that for the duration of the pandemic, AstraZeneca would be supplying the vaccine at cost. AstraZeneca also said on Thursday that data from the preliminary human trials could be available as early as May, with advancement to late-stage trials projected to go ahead by the middle of this year.
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