Search for vaccine: 2000 people are said to be deliberately infected with coronavirus

Britain plans to deliberately infect 2,000 volunteers with the coronavirus.

This is to be done as part of clinical studies to test vaccines.

• The corona virus * continues to spread in Germany and the world.

• Research has been

  looking for a

  vaccine

  against Covid-19 for months.

• In the

  UK

  , test subjects for a study are said to be intentionally infected with Covid-19 *.

Great Britain - The number of infections with the coronavirus is currently rising to a worrying level in many places * - including in Great Britain.

On Wednesday, the UK recorded 6,000 new infections within one day, the highest level since May.

The decisive reproduction number, or R-value * for short, is also steadily increasing.

Experts fear that

already in the middle of the second Corona wave *.

For this reason, the government tightened the measures to

last Monday

- the British are threatened with a second lockdown.

Meanwhile, scientists in the United Kingdom are also working flat out on a vaccine against the

.

UK: 2,000 people volunteer to be infected with the coronavirus

We are introducing new restrictions in England to reduce the spread of coronavirus.

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- UK Prime Minister (@ 10DowningStreet) September 23, 2020

According to a media report,

2,000 volunteer test persons

in the

now deliberately

infected

with the

virus.

As part of clinical

, the

test

the effectiveness of potential

from January

.

This is reported by the

, which cites insiders who are involved in the medical tests.

The

are therefore to be

carried out with

scientific support from

-

but this has not yet been confirmed

by the university in

itself.

A spokeswoman told BILD: “The Imperial College and a number of partners continue to be involved in research

on

to a large extent

.

Beyond that, we have nothing to report at the moment. "

+

The UK plans to purposely infect 2,000 people with the coronavirus to test vaccines.

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© Ted S. Warren / dpa

It is also so far unclear which pharmaceutical companies or research institutions

are involved in the studies

with their potential vaccines against the

.

Since the project

is supposed to run

with the support of the

of

according to the media report

, it can be assumed that it has been approved by the Medical Licensing and Supervisory Authority for Drugs (MHRA) of the

.

Coronavirus: UK wants to intentionally infect 2,000 test subjects for study

Not only

, but also Germany is struggling with the spread of the pandemic.

The Robert Koch Institute * is currently reporting increasing numbers of

again

.

Bavaria * in particular and

in particular

seem to have the

currently under control.

Now there is another

, where the second highest value in all of Germany was reported.

In order to reduce the risk of infection *, the measures have been tightened again in many places.

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