Coronavirus vaccine won’t be ready in time for the second wave, says Oxford’s Sir John Bell

A coronavirus vaccine won’t be ready in time for the second wave, the Government’s leading life sciences adviser has warned. Sir John Bell, 68, who sits on the UK’s vaccine taskforce and is also Oxford University’s regius professor of medicine, has warned that while the majority of vaccines take around eight years to develop, experts have only been working on a Covid-19 one for “just eight months”.