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A British vaccine that could provide strong protection against the new super-mutant Covid strain is already in the final trial stages, it was revealed last night.
Test results on the formula, developed by the team behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, are due in the next few days.
Should it prove effective, it could be ready for use within a matter of weeks.
The news was delivered by immunologist Professor Sir John Bell, a member of the government’s vaccine task force, who also revealed it was too late to stop ‘the monster’ variant currently ripping through Southern Africa from reaching our shores.
Despite the Government’s travel ban, Sir John said it was only ‘a matter of time’ before it surfaced here.
When that happened, he added, it could be necessary to use modified forms of vaccine if the ones currently being used prove ineffective.
However, the good news was that Britain was already well placed to make the switch quickly thanks to the pioneering work of the
