From Oxford trial pause to Sinovac's good results, here are all the updates regarding COVID vaccine development <br /> <br />Nine months on and over 25 million infection cases later, we are nowhere close to seeing the end of the pandemic. <br /> <br />However, it is becoming evidently clear that having a COVID vaccine is closer than we thought. <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />Here are all the updates regarding the top vaccines under contention right now: <br /> <br />Oxford clinical trials hit a pause <br /> <br />University of Oxford and AstraZeneca backed COVID vaccine, which was one of the first ones to head to trials and consequently, <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />Soon after, the multi-nation trials were also brought to a halt. Trials for th
