UK scientists say human trials on vaccine by summer

British scientists have said y will be ready by summer to conduct human clinical trials on vaccination for virus which emerged in Chinese city of Wuhan, but that it wouldn't be ready to use against infection until late 2020, early 2021.

vel coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, blamed for outbreak in Wuhan has so far caused over 600 deaths, most of m in China.

At a news conference on Friday, y said vaccination had just started being tested on animals.

Speaking afterwards Professor Robin Shattock, Professor of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Imperial College London,  said y were trying to have it ready if coronavirus becomes a cyclical rar than a one-off event.