Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2020
Coronavirus: CSL reveals delivery date for COVID-19 vaccine as it progresses with clinical trials
19 August 2020 - Australia’s biggest health care company, CSL, expects to start delivering “emergency doses” of a COVID-19 vaccine by the middle of next year if trials with the University of Queensland are successful.
CSL and UQ have “tightened the timeline” for the development of the vaccine, which began phase-one clinical trials last month and has received funding from the Bill Gates-backed Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in Oslo, CSL chief executive Paul Perreault told The Australian on Wednesday.
It comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison has locked in a guarantee for the Australia-wide supply of a separate vaccine, which Britain-based drug giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University are developing.
