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.
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.