The UK is set to start a human trial of the Coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. The vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford. – By Prudence Wanza.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government is doing all what is possible to develop a vaccine. He stated that the only way to defeat Coronavirus was through a vaccine and that the UK could create the first vaccine in the world.
“The process is trial and error, but the UK is at the front of the global effort and we have invested more money than any other country,” he said
The Oxford vaccine, known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 will be injected into 510 people out of a group of 1,112 aged 18 to 55. It is recruiting volunteers in London, Bristol, Oxford, and Southampton.
The Government will give the scientists an extra £20million to help with their trials, Mr. Hancock said, and a further £22.5m to a project at Imperial College London.
Currently, the UK has 130,194 confirmed cases and 17,378 deaths. It has carried out 397,000 tests so far.
