Coronavirus vaccines may be administered in PILL form in the future Alex Shipman
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Nadhim Zahawi, vaccines minister, has said the Government is assessing technologies with pills being developed around the globe. US-based ImmunityBio is using UK-developed technology to create vaccines in a pill or tablet form - and has started clinical trials.
IosBio, based in Sussex, has engineered a vaccine in oral form and carried out initial trials on monkeys. It is said to have produced highly effective results.
Mr Zahawi told Times Radio: There are technologies with pills and others being developed around the world and we will continue to look at those.
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drugs already in the market. Scientists at Imperial College London (ICL) announced they would instead use the technology behind the vaccine to target
coronavirus mutations. “Although our first generation Covid-19 vaccine candidate is showing promise in early clinical development, the broader situation has changed with the rapid roll-out of approved vaccines,” Prof Robin Shattock at the department of medicine said.
“It is not the right time to start a new efficacy trial for a further vaccine in the UK, with the emphasis rightly placed on mass vaccination in response to the rapid spread of the new variant.”
The vaccines developed so far appear to be effective against mutations that
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