UK Covid-19 vaccine trial set to infect healthy volunteers with virus

Researchers hope to begin world's first human challenge trials at east London quarantine facility in January

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Healthy volunteers in the UK could soon be deliberately infected with coronavirus in the world's first human challenge trial to find out which Covid vaccines work.

Government-funded studies, which it is believed will be announced next week, could begin in January in London, the Financial Times has reported. Volunteers exposed to Covid-19 would be closely monitored in strict quarantine for as long as a month.