Coronavirus Notebook: UK To Start World’s First COVID-19 Challenge Study, Janssen Files Its Vaccine For EU Approval

Cuba is about to begin Phase III trials with one of its four homegrown coronavirus vaccines, Australia has provisionally approved the AstraZeneca/Oxford University product, and the EU has upped its orders from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.

Hand in surgery glove holding syringe with covid vaccine. Cuban flag in the background
Cuba is pursuing its own vaccine development program • Source: Shutterstock

The UK’s clinical trials ethics body has given the go-ahead to the world’s first COVID-19 human challenge study in an effort to better understand how the virus works in the body and help to develop new vaccines and treatments for the disease.

The initial virus characterization study is expected to begin within the next few weeks. It will recruit up to 90...

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