Covid news - live: UK to ‘supercharge’ search for at-home treatments, as EU warns of ‘possible’ J&J clot link Kate Ng,Jon Sharman and Vincent Wood
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The UK government is set to launch a taskforce to “supercharge” the hunt for a new generation of antiviral medicines that can treat people infected with Covid-19 in their own homes.
Modelled after the team responsible for obtaining the nation’s vaccine supplies, the taskforce will search for and support treatments currently in development that can reduce transmission and speed up recovery from Covid-19.
Meanwhile, the European medicines regulator said there is a “possible link” between Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots.
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