The promise of an Oxford vaccine reveals how a new Britain could thrive | Will Hutton

The partnership between AstraZeneca and the Jenner Institute should jolt our industry and banksCoronavirus latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere was some good news last week. Oxford University ’s Jenner Institute announced it wasteaming up with AstraZeneca to take a promising prototype of coronavirus vaccine into volume production by the autumn. Of course there are caveats – the institute’sconfidence in its vaccine may not be validated by the trials that began last week.Still it was heartening, after so much tragic incompetence, that a British university and a British company could forge a relationship of such potential national importance.Continue reading...
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