Test results promising for UQ's COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Queensland scientists working on one of the world’s lead candidate vaccines for COVID-19 says the latest tests on hamsters show it is effective beyond expectations. Parallel human trials on their vaccine are also showing it is safe and can be mass produced.

23 June 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim: A field hamster looks after its release into the wild on a field near Mannheim from an earth building. Source: Getty Images