British pharma major AstraZeneca ahead in global race for Covid-19 vaccine

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British pharma major AstraZeneca ahead in global race for Covid-19 vaccine: All you need to know

Global health watchdog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified the candidates developed by Oxford University-AstraZeneca and Moderna Inc as the front-runners in the race to find an effective vaccine for the viral infection.

With the Covid-19 pandemic showing no signs of ebbing in nearly 185 countries across the globe, the race for a coronavirus vaccine is continuing at a frantic pace among global scientists and researchers.

Chinese researchers have been allowed to test eight vaccine candidates in humans at home and abroad, making the Asian giant a major front-runner in the race to develop a vaccine against the virus that has killed nearly 500,000 people globally.

Currently, there are more than 13 experimental vaccines in clinical trials among the 140 being developed to fight Covid-19.

Global health watchdog, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified the c

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