Q&A: What progress is being made with coronavirus vaccines?

Oxford Covid-19 vaccine candidate (Sean Elias/PA)

The UK could become the first nation to carry out human challenge studies, in which healthy people will be intentionally exposed to the virus responsible for Covid-19 in order to test the effectiveness of different vaccine candidates.

The British Government is putting £33.6m towards the research, with trials set to begin in early January 2021.