5.7 billion doses of the Coronavirus vaccine have been pre-ordered around the world.
Although none of the coronavirus vaccines under development has proved its efficacy yet in clinical trials.
First shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine created by Western laboratories have often been snapped up by the United States.
Five vaccines , three Western and two Chinese are in Phase 3 efficacy trials involving thousands of people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Tuesday, that a vaccine dubbed “Sputnik V” after the Soviet satellite conferred “sustainable immunity” against the novel coronavirus.
As research laboratories around the world race to develop a vaccine, manufacturers have received financing to help them prepare to have millions of doses ready to administer in 2021 or even before the end of the year.
Oxford University, working with the Swedish-British pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca, hopes to have results by September while the US biotech company Moderna, partnering with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), is aiming for the end of the year, possibly November.
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