India's Serum Institute starts manufacturing Codagenix's potential Covid-19 vaccine

Codagenix Inc said on

Tuesday Serum Institute

of India has started manufacturing the US biotech firm's potential

Covid-19

vaccine and it expects to begin early-stage human trial of the vaccine by the end of 2020 in the UK.


Serum Institute, the world's largest vaccine maker by number of doses produced, will develop Codagenix's CDX-005, which is delivered intranasally rather than via an injection.

Serum Institute is working on several vaccine candidates for the novel coronavirus - including potentially mass-producing the one from AstraZeneca-Oxford University that has garnered global headlines - as well as developing its own.

More than 150 potential vaccines are being developed and tested globally, with 38 in human trials, and candidates from Moderna Inc, Pfizer Inc and

AstraZeneca Plc

are already in late-stage trials.