UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock spoke in a briefing earlier:
- government is “throwing everything” at developing a coronavirus vaccine
- human trials for a vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, would begin on Thursday
Sounds promising? He may be overpromising as his later comments were a little more restrained:
- told the briefing that “the best way to defeat coronavirus” was through a vaccine
- The process was “trial and error”, he said, but the UK was at the “front of the global effort” and had invested more money than any other country.
