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WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan stated that the AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine candidate is the most advanced vaccine currently in terms of development.
It is said that AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate named AZD1222 (formerly known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19), has begun large-scale, mid-stage human trials of the vaccine The vaccine is developed by researchers at University of Oxford University.
However, Swaminathan said Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate was “not far behind” in the race of developing the Covid-19 vaccine.