Germany Reportedly Making Progress On Potential COVID-19 Vaccine, Human Trials To Begin Soon

UK is going to begin clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines on humans from tomorrow. Now, Germany has also approved clinical test of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the country¡¯s Federal Institute for Vaccines.

According to a report, the trial will have 200 healthy participants between the age of 18 and 55 and will receive several variants of the vaccine, developed by German biotech company BioNTech. This, to help scientists examine its efficiency in providing immunity against the virus.

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In the second stage of the trial more tests will be conducted on people with higher risk.

BioNTech has been developing the vaccine candidate, named BNT162, together with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The first human clinical trial of a potential COVID-19 vaccines were conducted on Monday this week in the US.

BNT162 will also be trialed in the US, once regulatory approval for testing on humans has been secured there.

Many countries are working towards developing a vaccine that will contain the spread of the coronavirus that has killed over 177,000 people and infected 2.5 million around the world.

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Germany has followed the UK in approving a human trial after health secretary Matt Hancock announced scientists at Oxford University will begin testing a vaccine on people this Thursday (April 23). The British government pledging is ?20m to the research.

According to the UK government, the potential Oxford University coronavirus vaccine participants will be aged between 18 and 55, out of an overall group of 1,112 volunteers who've been selected and finalised for the COVID-19 vaccine trial.

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock while briefing the UK parliament revealed the information of fast-tracking the Oxford vaccine trial. He said that they're pretty much 'throwing everything at' Britain's attempt to develop the first coronavirus vaccine in the world, according to a Daily Mail report.

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That's not all, the UK government is also funding scientists with an extra 20 million pounds to help with their trials, and offering a further 22.5 million pounds to another Coronavirus vaccine project underway at the Imperial College London.

We hope that all these clinic trials, the ones in UK, Germany and the U.S prove to be successful and we soon have a potential cure for the coronavirus.