Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what conclusions they drew from the COVID-19 human challenge trials; and how they used those data to inform their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The human challenge virus characterisation studies commenced in February 2021, and no results from the study have yet been analysed or published. We expect to see data on whether the virus characterisation study has been a success in the second half of 2021.