AstraZeneca jab creator says vaccine development has gone ‘backwards’

Professor Sarah Gilbert said the Covid-19 pandemic should have taught us that vaccines must be stockpiled in case diseases mutated and became highly infectious

Professor Sarah Gilbert warns that we still need to properly fund the development of vaccines (PA)

Lessons have not been learnt from the coronavirus pandemic in the need to properly fund the development of vaccines into other infectious diseases, one of the creators of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has said.

Professor Sarah Gilbert said her team was struggling to raise the money needed to develop vaccines against diseases already known about, yet alone those yet to emerge.