Britain's virus death toll is now only behind the US, Italy, Spain and France. FMTNews Covid19 UK
A patient is taken from an ambulance outside St Thomas Hospital in London last Wednesday.
The grim statistics came as British authorities said they had launched a taskforce to spearhead efforts to create and mass produce a coronavirus vaccine. He said the group, led by Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam, would coordinate efforts by government officials, academics and industrialists to find a vaccine.
Researchers at the University of Oxford said Friday that its volunteers could be given the first dose of a potential vaccine within the next week.Britain remains among the countries worst-hit by the pandemic, with the latest data showing the number of reported infections has climbed to nearly 109,000.
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