A nurse preparing to give a patient a vaccine
THE government said today that it would make the developing Covid-19 vaccine available to “developing countries at the lowest possible cost.”
Business Secretary Alok Sharma said “the UK will be first to get access” to a new vaccine currently being trialled, but that ministers will ensure that poorer countries can easily buy it.
Speaking at the daily Downing Street press conference, Mr Sharma said that the first clinical trial for a vaccine at the University of Oxford is progressing well.
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