Novel Coronavirus – vaccine Timelines: Covid-updates

Novel Coronavirus – vaccine Timelines: Covid-updates

In the past two weeks, breakthroughs in vaccine trials have been announced by a number of pharmaceutical companies, with four in particular appearing to show promising results. Further results from other trials are expected shortly.

The UK government has ordered millions of doses of vaccines from a number of companies (Oxford University/Astra Zenica, Pfizer/BioNtech and Moderna) but, before any will be available for use outside of trials, they need to be proven to be safe, they must have regulatory approval and large scale development must happen to enable delivery of large volumes of vaccines.