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The United Kingdom will begin in the coming weeks clinical trials to verify the effectiveness of drugs and vaccines against Covid-19 in which healthy people will be infected, the

Ministry of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

reported on Wednesday

.

In a statement, the ministry says that the United Kingdom will be the first country in the world to carry out this type of study in this pandemic, after they have been approved by an ethics committee.

Starting in March,

around 90 volunteers between 18 and 30 years old

, who will be compensated for their participation, will be inoculated in a safe and controlled way to determine, in a first phase, the minimum amount of virus required for infection to be generated , making it easier to later try vaccines and drugs.

When this data has been determined, the intention is to administer vaccines considered safe to a small group of volunteers who will be infected with the virus, in order to

verify the immune reaction

and that this serves to refine and accelerate the tests of the preparations to larger scale.

The variant of the virus with which the volunteers, who are now being recruited, will be initially infected will be the one circulating in the UK since March 2020 and which has been shown to be low-risk for healthy young adults. the note.

Studies where healthy people are infected - instead of waiting for them to become infected naturally, as has been done so far in the development of anticovid vaccines - are already used for the generation of vaccines and treatments against diseases such as

malaria , typhoid fever, common cold, flu, or norovirus

.

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