LONDON: A team of UK scientists believe they are among the first to start animal testing of a vaccine for the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread around the world. Researchers at Imperial College London said their ultimate goal was to have an effective and safe way of halting the SARS-like strain's spread by the end of the year.
Travellers going through the near-deserted Hangzhou East Railway Station in Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday due to the coronavirus outbreak. A team of UK scientists believe they are among the first to start animal testing of a vaccine for the epidemic. - Bloomberg
"At the moment we have just put the vaccine that we've generated from these bacteria into mice," Imperial College London researcher Paul McKay told AFP in an interview on Monday. But the local report cited unnamed sources and there has been no official announcement about the Chinese tests. Regulators must then make sure that the vaccine is both sufficiently safe and effective to be mass produced.
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