COVID immunity lasts at least eight months, new data reveals: The drug that gives 'instant immunity' to coronavirus? NHS trials new antibody therapy that may stop people who have been exposed to Covid becoming ill and could save thousands of lives
- Drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine
- It could be given as an emergency treatment to hospital inpatients, care home residents and university students to help reduce the spread of the virus
- Scientists from the University College London Hospitals NHS (UCLH) have injected ten people with the drug
