The COVID-19 pandemic which has affected more than 5 million people all across the globe and taken the lives of many has eluded doctors and scientists in more ways than one. One such area where researchers are yet to achieve success in is their race against time to find a vaccine against this deadly infection. Currently more than 100 vaccines are in different stages of development. However none of these has proved to be effective yet despite showing promising early signs in safety trials and animal studies. It takes 12-18 months for a vaccine to be approved available as it