How about and welcome to bbc news. Hello and welcome. There has been some important progress in the race to find a viable safe vaccine to halt the coronavirus pandemic today. Here in the uk, scientists at Oxford University say, the vaccine theyre developing appears to be safe and triggers an immune response. But its not clear if that will be enough to protect from the virus, but its not clear if that will be enough to protect from the virus, and it wasnt tested on older people, a particularly vulnerable group. The uk government has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. The trials, which involved just over 1,000 people, showed them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight the virus. The oxford team face competition from scientists in the us and china who are also producing promising results. American pharmaceutical firm moderna is hoping to enter the final stages of its trials next week. They are ready to administer the vaccine to 30,000 volunteers, the biggest
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A coronavirus recovery fund. Details of a new proposal have just been released but not yet agreed. And well round up all the latest coronavirus developments from around the world. Welcome. We start with some good news on the search for a vaccine for coronavirus. This is an editorial in the medicaljournal the lancet and the title says it all encouraging results from covid 19 vaccine trials. Two sets of results were published today one from the Jenner Institute at Oxford University and one from chinas academy of military medical sciences and Cansino Biologics in wuhan, china. Both appear safe and trigger an immune response. The lancet says, the results of both studies bode well for phase 3 trials, where the vaccines must be tested on much larger populations of participants to assess their efficacy and safety and that, overall, the results of both trials are broadly similar and promising. Heres the lead researcher on the chinese study speaking to state media back in march, just before Cli
From around the world. Welcome. We start with some good news on the search for a vaccine for coronavirus. This is an editorial in the medicaljournal the lancet and the title says it all encouraging results from covid 19 vaccine trials. Two sets of results were published today one from the Jenner Institute at oxford university, and one from chinas academy of military medical sciences and Cansino Biologics in wuhan, china. Both appear safe and trigger an immune response. The lancet says, the results of both studies bode well for phase 3 trials, where the vaccines must be tested on much larger populations of participants to assess their efficacy and safety and that, overall, the results of both trials are broadly similar and promising. Heres the lead researcher on the chinese study speaking to state media back in march just before Clinical Trials started. Translation in accordance with International Standards and domestic laws and regulations, we have made the preparations for its safety,
Lose hisjob . An election looms amid growing opposition to Alexander Lukashenkos response to coronavirus. Hello to you. There has been some important progress in the race to find a viable, safe vaccine to halt the coronavirus pandemic today. Here in the uk, scientists at Oxford University say the vaccine theyre developing appears to be safe and triggers an immune response. The uk government has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine. Heres fergus walsh. Three, one, three, one, one, nine, seven. So much is riding on this. Could the oxford vaccine help end the coronavirus pandemic . More than 9,000 volunteers have received the jab in the uk among them, these frontline nhs staff in newcastle. Ive seen what covid can do. The sort of severity of some of the cases has been quite upsetting at times, so i really wanted to try and help get rid of this disease. Unfortunately, me dad fell ill with covid and was admitted here for eight days. And i think once its been that close to home,