Oxford scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine say there is now only a 50% chance of success because the number of UK cases is falling too quickly

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• Oxford scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine say the chances of success are now 50%.
• They say that's because the number of people with the virus in the UK is falling too quickly.
• "At the moment, there's a 50% chance that we get no result at all," scientist Adam Hill said this weekend.
• His colleague Sir John Bell said vaccine scientists might have to "chase" COVID-19 around Britain.
• Oxford scientists have teamed up drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc to develop an experimental vaccine called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.
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Scientists involved in one of the world's leading studies into finding a vaccine for the coronavirus say there is currently only a 50% chance of success because the number of people in Britain with the virus is falling too quickly.

The Oxford University mission to find a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus is in "a race against the virus disappearing, and against time," Adam Hill, director at Oxford University's Jenner Institute, said this weekend.

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