Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 4th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to create a vaccine for covid-19.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 12th March 2020

Supported by United Kingdom funding, a number of potential COVID-19 vaccines are currently under development and efforts are being made to get any viable vaccines from sequencing of the virus to clinical testing in under a year. Governments around the world could then work with pharmaceutical companies to get vaccines into production and use.

As of 6 March, the UK’s total investment into COVID-19 vaccine research stands at £65 million.

This includes a £50 million contribution to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.

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