COVID-19 and animal vaccines

Now sixteen months on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government is looking to the future and putting measures in place to ensure the human and economic devastation caused by the virus is never repeated. As part of this commitment, the UK announced last month at the G7 Summit in Cornwall that a new UK Animal Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre will be established in Surrey. This aims to speed up the vaccine development for livestock and curb the spread of disease from animals to humans. My colleague Ellen Lambrix explores the case for developing COVID vaccines for animals, current candidates and the importance of animal vaccines in preventing future diseases and more in her article here.