Coronavirus: How you could be paid £3,500 to be infected with rapidly-spreading virus
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The Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in London is on the hunt for 24 people who would be injected with two weakened strains of the virus – before being given a jab from Hvivo researchers.
Patients would be placed in quarantine for a fortnight while studies are carried out to test the effectiveness of the potential vaccine.
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The government has pledged an extra £46m in the fight against the virus.
Of the 111,465 cases of coronavirus around the world, 3,883 people have died – a total of 3.48 per cent.
Public Health England (PHE) announced on March 8 that there were eight cases of the virus in Hampshire.
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They have since self-isolated at home.
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