en-us	(Reuters) - Britain's AstraZeneca joined forces with the University of Oxford on Thursday to help develop, produce and distribute a potential COVID-19 vaccine, as drugmakers around the world race to find a solution to the deadly disease.
zh-cn	(路透社)--英国的阿斯利康(AstraZeneca)周四与牛津大学(University Of Oxford)联手，帮助开发、生产和分销一种潜在的冠状病毒疫苗，世界各地的制药商都在竞相寻找这种致命疾病的解决方案。

en-us	UK Business Secretary Alok Sharma welcomed the tie-up as a vital step to making the Oxford vaccine available as soon as possible if it succeeds in clinical trials.
zh-cn	英国商务大臣阿洛克·夏尔马(Alok Sharma)对这一合作表示欢迎，认为这是如果牛津疫苗在临床试验中取得成功，尽快提供疫苗的关键一步。

en-us	A team of British scientists last week dosed the first volunteers, and earlier this month said large-scale production capacity was being put in place to make millions of doses even before trials show whether it is effective.
zh-cn	上周，一组英国科学家给第一批志愿者注射了药物，本月早些时候表示，甚至在试验显示是否有效之前，就已经建立了大规模的生产能力，以生产数百万剂药物。

en-us	Only a handful of the vaccines in development have advanced to human trials, an indicator of safety and efficacy - and the stage where most vaccines fail.
zh-cn	只有少数正在开发的疫苗已经进入人体试验，这是安全性和有效性的指标-也是大多数疫苗失败的阶段。

en-us	"Our hope is that, by joining forces, we can accelerate the globalisation of a vaccine to combat the virus and protect people from the deadliest pandemic in a generation," AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said.
zh-cn	阿斯利康首席执行官帕斯卡尔·索里奥(Pascal Soriot)表示：“我们希望，通过联合起来，我们可以加快疫苗的全球化进程，以对抗病毒，并保护人们免受一代人以来最致命的大流行的影响。”

en-us	The drugmaker did not give details on when it plans to start producing the vaccine "ChAdOx1 nCoV-19", being developed by the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group.
zh-cn	这家制药商没有透露计划何时开始生产由詹纳研究所(Jenner Institute)和牛津疫苗集团(Oxford Vaccine Group)开发的“ChAdOx1 nCoV-19”疫苗的细节。

en-us	Though the firm is not a major player in vaccine development unlike European peers GSK and Sanofi, who are working on their own vaccine, it has deep pockets and a $6-billion-strong R&D budget.
zh-cn	尽管与正在研发自己的疫苗的欧洲同行葛兰素史克(GSK)和赛诺菲(Sanofi)不同，该公司并不是疫苗开发的主要参与者，但它财力雄厚，研发预算高达60亿美元。

en-us	Cambridge-based AstraZeneca is also testing two of its approved treatments as a therapy to help in the outbreak that has so far infected over 3 million people and killed more than 215,000.
zh-cn	总部位于剑桥的阿斯利康(AstraZeneca)也在测试其批准的两种治疗方法，以帮助控制疫情爆发。到目前为止，疫情已导致300多万人感染，超过21.5万人死亡。

en-us	Its shares rose 2% on London's FTSE 100 by 0923 GMT as the main index fell, outpacing rival GSK.
zh-cn	截至0923GMT，其股价在伦敦富时100指数上涨2%，因主要指数下跌，涨幅超过竞争对手葛兰素史克。

en-us	Governments, drugmakers and researchers are working on around 100 vaccines for the virus.Industry experts say a successful vaccine will likely take more than a year to be developed but that is much faster than the average development time of 5-7 years.
zh-cn	政府、制药商和研究人员正在研究大约100种针对该病毒的疫苗。业内专家表示，一种成功的疫苗可能需要一年多的时间才能开发出来，但这比平均5-7年的开发时间要快得多。

en-us	There are currently no treatments or vaccines approved for the highly-contagious respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, but healthcare workers have been trying many approaches to treat patients.
zh-cn	目前还没有针对冠状病毒引起的高传染性呼吸道疾病批准的治疗或疫苗，但医护人员一直在尝试许多方法来治疗患者。

en-us	The vaccine, a type known as a recombinant viral vector vaccine, uses a weakened version of the common-cold virus spiked with proteins from the novel coronavirus to generate a response from the body's immune system.
zh-cn	这种疫苗被称为重组病毒载体疫苗，它使用一种弱化的普通感冒病毒，其中添加了来自新型冠状病毒的蛋白质，以产生来自人体免疫系统的反应。

en-us	Other drugmakers testing possible COVID-19 vaccines include Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax.
zh-cn	其他测试可能的冠状病毒疫苗的制药商包括辉瑞(Pfizer)、现代(Modern Na)、强生(Johnson&Johnson)和诺华(Novavax)。