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Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

Published : 21 Jul 2020, 02:59

  DF News Desk
File photo taken on April 24, 2020 shows a general view of signs on the private road Churchill Drive leading towards the Oxford University Old Road Campus, where the Jenner Institute is located, in Oxford, Britain. Photo Xinhua.

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response, reported British Broadcasting Corporation.

Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus, said the BBC report.

The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.

The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, BBC added.

Click BBC to read the detail original report.