UK Government Vaccine Development Research Team Grants 5.7 Billion Yen or More New Corona April 22 8:44
Regarding the development of a new coronavirus vaccine, the British government has announced that it will subsidize more than 5.7 billion yen in Japanese yen as "at the forefront of development" to two domestic research teams such as Oxford University, and expect early development Was shown.
British health minister Hancock said at a press conference yesterday, "We are ready to do everything for vaccine development," and put it at the forefront of development for two research teams at Oxford University and Imperial College London. It has announced that it will subsidize 42.5 million pounds in total, or more than 5.7 billion yen in Japanese yen.
Of these, the Oxford University research team will start clinical trials on the 23rd of this month.
Intended for healthy people from the 18-year-old prospect until mid-next month in the research team to 55-year-old hit a vaccine in development, after sure such as safety, the subject of the test the elderly even if the number of thousand people, including It is a plan to expand to scale.
This means that we will proceed with the construction of a system that can mass-produce vaccines.
The research team all hopes that this could potentially start vaccine production in September.
According to WHO = World Health Organization, five teams in the world, including Chinese and American research institutions and companies, are already conducting clinical trials for vaccines.