The UK launched coronavirus vaccine - the first "patient" shows why she accepted it.

The first human test in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has already begun in Oxford.

According to British media, the Telegraph reports, two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited to study.


Half will receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and half the control vaccine which protects against meningitis but not coronavirus.

Test design means that volunteers will not know which vaccine they are getting, although doctors will know.

Elisa Granato, one of the two who received the vaccine, told the BBC: "I'm a scientist, so I wanted to try to support the scientific process wherever I could."

According to the BBC, the vaccine was developed in less than three months by a team at Oxford University.

Sarah Gilbert, a professor of vaccination at the Jenner Institute, led the pre-clinical study.

"Personally, I have a high degree of confidence in this vaccine," she said.

Otherwise, as a result of coronavirus, over 2.6 million people have been infected worldwide so far, while over 180,000 have died.