The top 5 leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates
Vaccine candidate: AZD1222
Developers/sponsors:University of Oxford, AstraZeneca
Technology: Modified chimp adenovirus vector (ChAdOx1)
Location: UK, Brazil
Status: Phase III
Duration: May 2020 – Aug 2021
Vaccine candidate: mRNA-1273
Developers/sponsors: Moderna, NIAID, BARDA
Technology: Lipid nanoparticle dispersion containing mRNA
Location: USA
Status: Phase III
Duration: Jul 2020 – Oct 2022
Vaccine candidate: Unnamed
Developers/sponsors: Sinopharm: Beijing Institute of Biological Products
Developers/sponsors: Wuhan Institute of Biological Products
Technology: Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 (vero cells)
Location: China, UAE
Status: Phase III
Duration: Jul 2020 – Jul 2021
Vaccine candidate: CoronaVac
Developers/sponsors: Sinovac, Instituto Butantan
Technology: Inactivated SARS-CoV-2
Location: China, Brazil, Indonesia
Status: Phase III
Duration: Apr 2020 – Dec 2020 in Xuzhou, May 2020 – Jul 2020 in Renqiu, China
Duration: Jul 2020 – Oct 2021 in Brazil, Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 in Indonesia
Vaccine candidate: BNT162 a1, b1, b2, c2
Developers/sponsors: BioNTech, Fosun Pharma, Pfizer
Technology: mRNA
Location: USA, Germany
Status: Phase II-III
Duration: Apr 2020 – May 2021
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