Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Could Start in UK Within a Month
03/23/2020
Trials of a coronavirus vaccine could begin within the next month, the UK’s health agency has said, as it prepares to start evaluating a drug developed by Oxford University, according to a report in The Telegraph.
Scientists at Public Health England (PHE) could give the go-ahead for human testing well ahead of the usual time frame for drug development.
The health agency is only due to start preliminary evaluation of the vaccine on animals next week. PHE researchers have collaborated with teams at Liverpool and Bristol universities to create an exact replica of Covid-19 for use in the testing process.