An academic leading the search for a vaccine to combat coronavirus has said the process has accelerated and one could be available as early as the end of the year.
Professor Sir John Bell, the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford, said steady progress is being made during the vaccine trial, and they are expanding recruitment across the country. "It looks pretty safe.
We're optimistic everything's on schedule," he told the BBC's Radio World At One programme. Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletter You can sign up very simply by following the instructions here He said it wasn't that long ago that experts were saying it would be "18 months or probably two years"
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