A jab against coronavirus should last for several years at least, said the British scientist whose own vaccine project is the global front-runner. Professor Sarah Gilbert told MPs she was optimistic that a vaccine would provide ‘a good duration of immunity’. She is the world-renowned expert leading an Oxford University team that is devising a vaccine, so her claim could help to dispel the fears over how long protection against Covid-19 might last. How the injectable vaccines from Imperial College London and Oxford University would workThe trial, which used 45 people in three groups and a control group, showed encouraging early results. Kate Bingham told MPs today she was confident the world would have some form of vaccine against Covid-19 by early 2021.

Source: Daily Mail July 01, 2020 22:26 UTC