From Oxford trial pause to Sinovac's good results, here are all the updates regarding COVID vaccine development

Nine months on and over 25 million infection cases later, we are nowhere close to seeing the end of the pandemic.

However, it is becoming evidently clear that having a COVID vaccine is closer than we thought.

As many as 6 vaccine groups globally are in the middle of late scale testing and working to roll out doses for the population before others.

Here are all the updates regarding the top vaccines under contention right now:

Oxford clinical trials hit a pause

University of Oxford and AstraZeneca backed COVID vaccine, which was one of the first ones to head to trials and consequently,

start large scale phase III trials came to a temporary 'halt' this week (September 08), after one of the volunteers in the study developed neurological complications due to unexplained reasons.

Soon after, the multi-nation trials were also brought to a halt. Trials for th