Human trials of a potential vaccine for the coronavirus are set to begin in the U.K. later this week.
British Health Minister Matt Hancock said Tuesday that a vaccine developed by researchers at Oxford University will be tested on people on Thursday.
“In normal times, reaching this stage would take years, and I’m very proud of the work taken so far,” he said in a daily news briefing.
Hancock said he would make £20 million ($24.5 million) available to the scientists at Oxford, as well as an additional £22.5 million in funding for researchers at Imperial College London.
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