More Covid-19 patients needed for drug trials, says Matt Hancock

Health secretary says trials are being set up with ‘breathtaking speed’ to find treatments

More patients with Covid-19 are needed to take part in clinical trials to find licensed drugs that could be effective in treating the virus, the health secretary has said, welcoming “the breathtaking speed” with which the experiments were set up.

Speaking at the government’s daily coronavirus press conference, Hancock said the government was “bringing together some of the finest research minds in the country” to design and deliver trials at record pace.

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