Covid live updates: Leaders call for global treaty to ensure future pandemic transparency

Covid live updates: Leaders call for global treaty to ensure future pandemic transparency

The U.K. is set to be the first country to run a Covid-19 "human challenge" study, following approval from the country's clinical trials ethics body.

The first Covid-19 human challenge trial will see up to 90 volunteers, aged 18 to 30 years, exposed to Covid-19 "in a safe and controlled environment to increase understanding of how the virus affects people," the British government said in a statement Wednesday.

Researchers are calling on healthy young people, who are at the lowest risk of complications resulting from coronavirus, to volunteer for the study. Volunteers will be compensated for the time they spend in the study, which is set to begin within a month.

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