In Britain in the laboratory, coronavirus is grown to deliberately infect volunteers. This is reported by the newspaper Daily Mail.
According to the publication, British scientists from Oxford University intend to pay infected people to 6.5 thousand dollars a month (about 480 thousand rubles). Such research methods are used to develop more effective treatments COVID-19.
More than 40 healthy young volunteers have already been influenced by the original Wuhan strain under careful observation. However, the next stage involves the study of the new “delta” -variant of coronavirus, which currently dominates in the country.
For voluntary participation in the study, scientists are gaining in groups of only the most healthy British aged 18 to 30 years. Participants should not be bad habits, chronic diseases and overweight.
United Kingdom is the only country that conducts scientific trials of coronavirus in humans.
Earlier in Britain offered to combine vaccines from coronavirus and influenza. They can be mixed in one injection to make immunization of citizens more comfortable. “It will save a lot of time, and it will be much more convenient to do only one injection,” the chief executive officer of the Center for Production and Innovation Vaccine Dr. Matthew Dushars.