Coronavirus vaccine: When will we have one?
Vaccines harmlessly show viruses or bacteria to the immune system. The body's defences recognise them as an invader and learn how to fight them.The main method of vaccination for decades has been to use the original virus.
Researchers in Oxford have put small sections of its genetic code into a harmless virus that infects chimpanzees. They hope they have developed a safe virus that looks enough like the coronavirus to produce an immune response.
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