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Table 3 Candidate vaccines for COVID-19 (as of June, 2021)

From: Current status of traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of COVID-19 in China

Vaccine platform description

Candidate vaccines in clinical phase (No.)

Candidate vaccines in pre-clinical phase (No.)

Protein subunit

32

72

Viral vector (non-replicating)

16

21

Inactivated virus

16

9

RNA based vaccine

16

24

DNA based vaccine

10

16

Virus like particle

5

18

Viral vector (replicating)

2

19

Viral vector (replicating) + antigen presenting cell

2

0

Live attenuated virus

2

2

Live attenuated bacterial vector

0

2

Viral vector (non-replicating) + antigen presenting cell

1

0

Bacterial vector (Replicating)

0

1

Cellular based vaccine

0

1

Total

102

185

  1. Source: WHO