NEW DELHI : Serum Institute of India, which is partnering Oxford University for a promising under-trial covid-19 vaccine, aims to have the vials ready for use by September-October, its chief executive said on Tuesday as scientists in the US reported success with the Oxford vaccine in animals.
Tuesday brought rare good news in the world’s war against the deadly covid-19 pandemic. Scientists at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, US, reported that six rhesus monkeys inoculated with the Oxford University vaccine and then exposed to heavy quantities of the novel coronavirus “were healthy" 28 days later, The New York Times said in a report.