The clinical trial started on Monday, with two health workers in Cape Town, being given the (Bacille Calmette-Guerin) BCG vaccine.
It's hoped the immunisation will help reduce the risk of infection or even ease the symptoms.
According to TASK CEO Professor Andreas Diacon,"participation is completely voluntary and the two people we have vaccinated are just the first two who volunteered. So we are vaccinating completely healthy people. It's a vaccine so it's supposed to protect you from things that are going to happen in the future and then we will observe"."We have chosen the best candidates to participate they are health care workers they work in the Cape Town hospitals.
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