UK to test COVID-19 vaccine on humans this week

British Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said on Tuesday a COVID-19 vaccine developed at the University of Oxford would be tested on humans in the United Kingdom from Thursday.

Hancock, who said he was “throwing everything at” the attempt to develop the first vaccine in the world, said the government would give the scientists an extra £20million to help with their project.

According to him, the vaccine, known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 will be trialled in conjunction with the University Hospital, Southampton.

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It is the first British-made vaccine to go into clinical trials and carries with it huge hopes that it will provide a key to getting out of lockdown and banishing COVID-19 from society.

The UK has 125,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 17,339 deaths.

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