The health agency is only due to start preliminary evaluation of the vaccine on animals next week. Those behind the vaccine have been given permission to commence human trials before animal tests are complete, the Guardian reported, in a bid to accelerate the development process. (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)Permission was granted after similar vaccines developed for other diseases were proved safe in human trials. (Image: Aidan Crawley/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)The team at the Jenner Institute only began work on the drug on January 10 this year. The Jenner Institute said it had based the drug on an "adenovirus vaccine vector" based on an adenovirus isolated from a chimpanzee.

Source: Daily Mirror March 20, 2020 01:33 UTC