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U.K. gets approval to infect healthy volunteers in world’s first coronavirus ‘challenge trial’ Karla Adam © Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP A blood sample from a volunteer is handled in the laboratory at Imperial College in London, on July 30, 2020. Imperial College is among the institutions working on developing a covid-19 vaccine. LONDON Britain will become the first country to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus, now that the country s ethics body has approved a human challenge trial. The effort, funded by the British government, aims to accelerate scientific understanding of vaccines and treatments. The first stage will begin within the month and see up to 90 adults, age 18 to 30, exposed to the coronavirus “in a safe and controlled environment” to gauge the smallest amount of virus needed to cause infection, the government said in a statement Wednesday.

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