AN OXFORDSHIRE family who all signed up to take part Oxford's coronavirus vaccine trials have welcomed the 'promising results'.

Scientists leading the trial believe the vaccine could give a 'double protection' against the deadly virus after taking blood tests from volunteers in Phase 1.

Volunteers were given the potential Covid-19 vaccine or a placebo vaccine that protects against meningitis.

None of them know which one they were given.

Katie Viney, her husband Tony and daughter Rhiannon, from Bicester, have all been symptom free and haven’t, as far as they know, had coronavirus yet.

But mum-of-four Mrs Viney, who has gone back to work as a teaching assistant in Bure Park Primary School, said the Oxford University team ‘want them’ to come into contact with the virus to ‘see how they react’.

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She said as part of diary entries checking up on how they feel the family also have to write details about how many people they have all come into contact with.

Mrs Viney said: “We haven’t really had any contact with the virus at all – I’m back to work and back to school now and my colleague did have it but at the start of lockdown.

“A pupil was also in hospital with it but he’s better now.

“I would vaccinate my children tomorrow, if I could.

“We are quite a big family, there’s six of us, and the survey asks about each one of them.

"In the initial stage of course we weren’t going anywhere – but now it asks ‘has your child one met more than three friends’ and he’s at school.

“They want to see how exposed we are and how we react to it. We’re just living as normal.”