The chief investigator of the global clinical trials for the Oxford coronavirus vaccine candidate says it could go before regulators this year — once scientists are satisfied it works.
Trial data for the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca's possible coronavirus vaccine could be given to regulators this year but corners cannot be cut to speed up approval for emergency use, a scientist leading the trials says.The lead scientist in the Oxford Vaccine Group trial says the trial data would go to regulators once the scientists were satisfied with it
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called the Oxford vaccine "one of the most advanced and promising in the world"
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