UK vaccine trial participant ‘fine’ after reports of death

The British government said an article claiming Elisa Granato had died following the trial in Oxford is “completely untrue”.

One of the first people to be injected as part of UK human trials for a coronavirus vaccine has said she is “doing fine”, after a fake article about her death was circulated on social media.

The article claims that microbiologist Elisa Granato, who took part in the trial in Oxford, England, on Thursday, had died following complications after taking the vaccine.