Race for Covid-19 vaccine picks up as Germany, UK start trials

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The Oxford trial will involve 510 volunteers aged between 18 and 55 in the first phase. FMTNews UK German Covid

A US pharmacist administers the first shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential Covid-19 vaccine.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, German regulatory body PEI green-lighted the country’s first trials on human volunteers for a vaccine developed by German firm Biontech and US giant Pfizer. The Oxford trial is part of a nationwide effort in the UK which since Friday has been spearheaded by a government taskforce.

He added that the firm expected to have collected first data by “the end of June or beginning of July”.

 

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