The British firm is just one company working on a potential coronavirus vaccine.
It said Thursday that late-stage trials are taking place in the U.K., Brazil and South Africa and will soon start in the United States as well. These tests are aimed at verifying how the immune system responds to the vaccine.produced a "promising" immune response in large, early-stage human trials.
"What we know is that most companies are targeting two injections for the initial vaccination and then our own assumption based on what we know from the technology we use with SARS 1 is that the immunity could last 12 months maybe 18 months," Pascal Soriot, chief executive officer of AstraZeneca, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe."The company has reached deals to distribute its potential Covid-19 vaccine in different parts of the world.
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