FebruaryAt Australia&rsquos national science agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), George Lovrecz, research team leader of the manufacturing division,...Image by Scott McNaughton/The Age via Getty Images
FebruaryAdeline Danneels (left), a technician from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNIR), and Sandrine Belouzard, virologist, work in a high-level biosafety laboratory a...Image by Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images
FebruaryPiero Di Lorenzo, president and CEO of IRBM, which is headquartered in Rome, Italy. The research organisation has signed an agreement with The Jenner Institute at Oxford University,...Image by Franco Origlia/Getty Images
MarchThe headquarters of German biotech firm CureVac in Tübingen, Germany. According to German media outlet Welt am Sonntag, US President Donald Trump sought exclusive access for the United...Image by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images
AprilAbout 220 volunteers from Wuhan, China, the city that is the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic, participate in clinical trials of a vaccine candidate developed in the Asian country, w...Image by TPG/Getty Images
AprilRegistered nurse Heather Hoppe was one among the 2,000 frontline staff from the Fiona Stanley Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the Perth Children&rsquos Hospital in Australi...Image by Paul Kane/Getty Images
AprilRobert Langer, co-founder of biotech firm Moderna at his Cape Cod residence in Massachusetts, US. Moderna was one of the first companies to react to the Covid-19 outbreak back in Janua...Image by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
MayIn Germany, people demonstrate in front of the Reichstag building (which houses the German Parliament) against compulsory vaccination and the &ldquofreedom-limiting&rdquo measures of the...Image by Kay Nietfeld/Picture Alliance via Getty Images
MayA research scientist at Verndari Inc, a biopharmaceutical company in Napa, California in the United States, tests VaxiPatch, a pantented, painless microneedle array derm patch that can b...Image by Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
MayIn May, even as the pandemic continued to worsen, supporters of US President Donald Trump rallied to reopen California. Seen here is a protestor holding up an anti-vaccination sign. The ...Image by David McNew/Getty Images
JuneChristoph Hueck, a German molecular biologist, speaks to journalists during an interview in Stuttgart, Germany. Hueck, a prominent voice among those opposed to mandatory vaccinations, h...Image by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images
JulyA researcher at the National Primate Research Center of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, which is leading the development of a homegrown Covid-19 vaccine in the country. The vaccin...Image by Chaiwat Subprasom/Sopa Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images
JulyA group of traditional healers protest against vaccine trials on humans in Africa at the Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. The first phase of clinical trials in Africa was ...Image by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images
JulyMembers of the Gurukul School of Arts in Lower Parel in Mumbai congratulate Oxford University, UK, using paintings after the latter&rsquos success in early human trials for its vaccine ...Image by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
AugustA nurse, Sarah Aldana Rangon, resident of Sao Paulo, Brazil, volunteers in a study for the Covid-19 vaccine candidate by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. According to local med...Image by Andre Lucas/Picture Alliance / Getty Images
AugustRabbi Shmuel Herzfeld has his arm disinfected by Dr Chao Wang during a clinical trial of biotech firm Moderna&rsquos vaccine at the Meridian Clinical Research in Maryland, US. Modern...Image by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post / Getty Images
AugustLaboratory workers supervise centrifuges at the production plant of mAbxience, a biotechnology company in Garin, Argentina, which belongs to the Grupo Insud business conglomerate. The...Image by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images
AugustA volunteer receives a Russian-made polyvalent vector vaccine for Covid-19 as part of clinical trials at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Human trials for the vaccine, ...Image by Sechenov Medical University Press OfficeTass via Getty Images
AugustThe Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), the world&rsquos largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, starts trials of the vaccine made by Oxford University and AstraZeneca in Augus...Image by Serum Institute of India
