In case anyone missed it, we're currently in the middle of a global pandemic and almost the entire world is in lockdown. While there's still no vaccination for coronavirus and we still don't know how long it will take for one to be developed, some of the greatest minds in the world are working on it. Turns out, the team that is working on the vaccination at Oxford University also includes a woman from Kolkata.

Chandra Datta is a resident of Oxford and part of the university as a quality assurance manager and is reportedly playing a big part in the manufacturing of anti-viral vaccine - ChAd0x1 nCoV-19.

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While talking to TOI, she said, "After I have checked all the paperwork, the quality professional does certification of the batch that he is happy for the vaccine to go for the clinical trial. That happened on Wednesday with the Covid-19 vaccine." She went on, "It has been an amazing experience. The last one month everyone has been really pressured but we got it done very quickly. There has been a massive team effort. From what I have heard, we are planning to start mass manufacture at the Serum Institute in Pune before the trial passes so as soon as the trial passes, it can go to the market."

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