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Coronavirus vaccine breakthrough could be made next month with trial results due
Results of a human trial of a coronavirus vaccine could be available by the middle of June, an expert has said.
Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said “several hundred” people have been vaccinated and the challenge now is to be able to manufacture at scale once it is approved by the regulators.
At the end of April a team of researchers at Oxford started testing a Covid-19 vaccine in human volunteers.
Around 1,110 are expected to take part in the trial, half receiving the vaccine candidate and the other half (the control group) receiving a widely available meningitis vaccine.
Prof Bell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We also want to make sure that the rest of the world will be ready to make this vaccine at scale so that it gets to populations in developing countries, for example, where the need is very great.
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