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UK backs Covid-19 vaccine trials that will inject healthy volunteers with virus

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COVID-19, to accelerate the development of Covid-19 vaccines .The government said it would invest 33.6 million pounds ($43.5 million) in the studies in partnership with Imperial College London, laboratory and trial services company hVIVO and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, reported Reuters.If approved by regulators and an ethics committee, the studies would start in January with results expected by May 2021, the government said.Britain's hVIVO, a unit of pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan, said on Friday it was carrying out preliminary work for the trials.Using controlled doses of virus, the aim of the research team will initially be to discover the smallest amount of virus it takes to cause COVID-19 infection in small.

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