27 Aug 2020

Covid-19: Government moves to secure vaccine

From Afternoons, 1:17 pm on 27 August 2020

The government announced today it will be putting  "significant extra funding" towards securing a Covid-19 vaccine.

Jesse speaks to Otago University infectious disease expert, Professor David Murdoch, about this development.

A scientist is pictured at the Oxford Vaccine Group's laboratory facility at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, west of London on June 24, 2020.

Photo: AFP