Britain will trial a new coronavirus tracing program on the Isle of Wight, just off the south coast of England, cabinet minister Michael Gove said on Sunday as the government looks at how to minimise the risk of a second wave of infection.
Cobra Biologics, a manufacturer of a possible COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists, may know by the end of May if the firm can make a million doses a month with a view to building stocks for commercial supply when the vaccine is approved.
A million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists are already being manufactured and will be available by September 2020, even before trials prove whether the shot is effective, the team said.
The number of new cases of COVID-19 is easing in some parts of Europe, including Italy and Spain, but outbreaks are still growing in Britain and Turkey, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
A leading British scientist made a significant breakthrough in the race for a coronavirus vaccine by reducing a part of the normal development time from “two to three years to just 14 days”, Sky news reported.
An HIV-positive man in Britain became the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, his doctors said.
