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Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine likely to be available by September

Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial team is ‘absolutely on track’ and the vaccine could be available as early as September.

This comes as a big breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus. It has been licensed to AstraZeneca. The vaccine, named ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, is based on a weakened version of the common cold that causes infections in chimpanzees. It also contains the genetic material of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 – the strain of coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 illness.