Coronavirus vaccine human trials will begin tomorrow, 23rd April in the UK.
According to UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, all is set to “begin the trials as early as Thursday.”
He says he is proud that UK is the first country to develop a successful vaccine and so he is throwing everything at it.
He confirmed that £22.5 and £20 million have been made available to Imperial and Oxford teams to accelerate the project.
Hancock made the announcement via his Twitter handle on Wednesday. According to him, “We’re giving the 2 leading UK vaccine teams at Oxford & Imperial all the support they need to make it happen'”
Hancock believes the amounts should support the teams’ clinical trials which is the 2nd phase of the project. The money is expected to also fund a large part of the phase 3 trails.
Speaking further, he said the process has been accelerated with the collaboration of the NHRA and praised the dedication of the teams who worked tirelessly to achieve the successes recorded up till this point.
Matt Hancock stressed that the coronavirus vaccine from the Oxford project is all set for human trials with effect from tomorrow. He also added that under normal circumstances, it would take years to reach this stage but he is proud of the work done so far.
Coronavirus broke out in Wuhan China in the last quarter of 2019. It has so far infected 2,585,195 people worldwide and caused 179,839 deaths.
By this afternoon, 133,495 have been infected in the U K including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Crowned Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne.
18,100 fatalities have also been recorded as at this moment in the UK alone.
The coronavirus vaccine human trials was first announced by a team of French scientists in March. Unfortunately, theirracist approach to their project attracted international backlash.
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