The health secretary is set to praise the vaccine rollout, the NHS and scientists ahead of a meeting of G7 health ministers.
The Health Secretary will today praise the role of UK scientists in the fight against COVID and say the government"backed a lot of horses" when it came to vaccines.
In a speech at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, ahead of the UK-hosted G7 health ministers' meeting this week, Matt Hancock is expected to say:"Even before the first COVID-19 case arrived in the UK we'd started the work on how to develop, procure and roll out the vaccines that would ultimately make us safe.
"I was told a vaccine had never been developed against any human coronavirus. We dared to believe, and we started early. "We put out a call for research in February. By March, we were supporting six different projects, including the Oxford vaccine, alongside the vital work on treatments - including the Recovery trial, which led to the discovery of dexamethasone, the first proven treatment to reduce coronavirus mortality."The biggest risk would have been the failure to find a vaccine at all. So we explicitly embraced risk early on. So we backed lots of horses and invested at risk.
"And instead of sitting back and waiting to see which vaccines came off, we were tenacious in helping them to get over the line, drawing on the abundant industry experience in our team."
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