Agencies

Positive news on initial trials of the University of Oxford�s potential COVID-19 vaccine that has been licensed to AstraZeneca could be announced as soon as Thursday, source.

The potential vaccine is already in large-scale Phase III human trials to assess whether it can protect against COVID-19, but its developers have yet to report Phase I results which would show whether it is safe and whether or not it induces an immune response.

The developers of the vaccine said this month they were encouraged by the immune response they had seen in trials so far and were expecting to publish Phase 1 data by the end of July.

More than 100 vaccines are being developed and tested around the world to try to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed hundreds of thousands and ravaged the global economy.

The company has signed agreements with governments around the globe to supply the vaccine should it be cleared for use.