Work has been ramped up to deliver a highly specialist vaccine manufacturing and innovation centre a year early.

Experts at the newly established Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) are already working with the Oxford University team that was first in the UK to start human trials of a possible covid-19 vaccine last week.

The programme to build the new facility on one of the UK’s leading science and technology campuses just outside Oxford has been fast-tracked because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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