The UK is injecting £20million into coronavirus research projects that will trial the effectiveness of 1,000 drugs on the disease, as well as developing a vaccine. Funding will support preclinical testing of the new vaccine, vaccine manufacturing and then clinical trials in people. Flu, anti-malaria, arthritis and HIV medication: The promising therapies being tested on coronavirus patients around the world - but how many are the NHS trying? Doctors in the US tried it on three hospitalised coronavirus patients but results were mixed. The drug is now being trialled on coronavirus patients in China and at the University of Nebraska, CNN reports.

Source: Daily Mail March 23, 2020 17:53 UTC