Vaccines against COVID-19 could one day be taken in pill form, the British vaccine deployment minister said.
Nadhim Zahawi said there may be an oral option available in the future, the Telegraph reported.
“There are technologies with pills and others that are being developed around the world and we will continue to look at them,” Zahawi told Times Radio.
“But we make sure the UK will always have the capacity and capacity to manufacture vaccine variants that deal with any variant of the virus.”
A British biotechnology company has already turned the blows into a tablet that produced “excellent” results protecting monkeys from the coronavirus.
“Take COVID to mucosal cells,” Wayne Channon, executive director of Sussex-based biotech firm iosBio, told the Telegraph. “But with spikes, it is injected into the arm, which enters the muscles and blood cells. Our tablets go directly into the cells of the mucosa to trigger mucosal immunity, so we hit the virus wherever it is.
He said the pills could also speed up the race to vaccinate people around the world.
“With our capsule, you won’t need medical professionals to administer the vaccine, you could send it to Amazon Prime and get everyone vaccinated on Saturday,” Channon told the network.