The University of Oxford in the UK has reported positive findings of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate in a small preclinical study involving six monkeys.
This preliminary data of the vaccine, currently in human trials, has been published on the preprint website bioRxiv, noted Reuters.
According to the publication, some monkeys administered with a single shot of the vaccine generated antibodies against the virus within 14 days while all monkeys developed antibodies within 28 days, prior to being exposed to high virus doses.
Following exposure to the coronavirus, the vaccine candidate was prevented damage to the lungs and blocked the virus from replication.