UK may ‘have a shot’ at finding a Vaccine by the end of this Year as 100,000 Brits sign up to trials

BRITONS are being urged to sign up for future vaccine trials, as the chair of the UK’s task force says we could have a vaccine by early next year that will stop people dying from coronavirus.

An initial 100,000 volunteers have already signed up to the NHS Covid-19 Vaccine Research online Registry, thousands more will be needed to register. A leading expert has said that the Covid-19 vaccines currently undergoing trials at Oxford University and in Germany are the most likely candidates to be ready this year.

Kate Bingham, chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, said 100,000 people had already offered to take part in medical trials for potential vaccines, she went on to say that they are overseeing a portfolio of six different vaccines across four different vaccine sites.

Speaking as she put out the call for more volunteers to come forward to take part in trials, Ms Bingham told Sky News: “I think we have a shot of getting a vaccine this year. There’s two potential candidates, one would be the Oxford candidate and the other one is the German vaccine from BioNTech.

“Those are the two that if everything works could potentially be both registered and delivered this year, it is most likely to be next year, though.”