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Volunteers To Be Infected With Coronavirus For £3,500 To Help Find A Vaccine That Cures The Ailment

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Following the recent surge in the novel coronavirus and the increased death report, plans are being made to develop a vaccine to help with the fight against the disease.

In light of that, Volunteers will be intentionally infected with the coronavirus and they will be paid the sum of £3,500 this according to Hvivo will help find a vaccine for the disease.

This testing is part of a $2bn global effort to find a vaccine for coronavirus.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Over 20 Vaccines for the Covid-19 are currently being developed.

The 24 volunteers will live in quarantine at the Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in Whitechapel for an agreed two weeks.

Also, there will be some restrictions placed on the participants during this time; They will only be able to eat and drink certain foods.

In addition to that, there will be no exercise or physical contact with other people. They will only be able to eat and drink certain foods.

According to reports by “The Mirror, these volunteers will be injected with two basic but much less serious strains of the virus.

Hvivo, the company behind the laboratory at Queen Mary, will be infecting 24 volunteers at a time with the 0C43 and 229E strains of the virus. 

These strains will according to the Laboratory, cause moderate respiratory symptoms and will be less severe than the Covid-19 that is rapidly infecting people around the globe currently.

If a vaccine is developed from this trial, it will help in the fight against the virus.

In any case, Intense precautionary measures will be taken by any nurses or doctors who work on this study.

They will have to wear ventilators and protective clothes while they are working in the lab or with any material that may be infected with the virus, such as blood tests and dirty tissues or

At the end of the experiment, the most effective drugs and vaccines will be selected and will be used on other patients.

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