UK donates £20,000,000 to fund coronavirus cure

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The British government has donated £20 million towards finding a cure for deadly coronavirus after two patients were diagnosed with the disease in the UK.

The £20 million investment will go to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations , a global body aiming to fast-track a vaccine within six to eight months.CEPI chief executive Dr Richard Hatchett said such a tight timescale was ‘unprecedented’. A mother cries as she pleads with police to allow her daughter to pass a checkpoint for cancer treatment after she arrived from Hubei province in Jiujiang, China

The UK’s money will help fund the efforts of Dr Kate Broderick, who is Scottish but now based in California, who is working to create a coronavirus vaccine.Dr Broderick, 42, a molecular geneticist who works for the pharmaceutical company Inovio, told the Times: ‘We have the opportunity to save some lives on the basis that we do this as fast as we can.’

‘The £20 million announced today will help our globally recognised vaccine development capabilities continue to develop new defences against emerging diseases, including coronavirus.’ ‘The earliest stage of phase one clinical trials, to establish the safety of investigational vaccines, would take around two to four months.’

 

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