Published 18:27 IST, February 9th 2020

US officials report coronavirus vaccine likely to be ready in 3 months

US health officials on Friday said that the development of coronavirus vaccine is progressing well without glitches & would hopefully be ready within 3 months

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United States health officials on Friday said that development of coronavirus vaccine is progressing well without any glitches. anuncement was me by a US health official in a press briefing conducted by Department of Health and Human Services. One of members of President’s Coronavirus Task Force during press briefing said that work is underway and vaccine would hopefully be rey within three months.

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"Last time we h a briefing like this I mentioned to you that we were in process of developing, implementing and testing a variety of countermeasures in form of diagstics, rapeutics and vaccines. A number of organisations, pharmaceutical companies, individual investigators were involved in developing a vaccine or vaccines for vel coronavirus. one that NIH is working on in with collaboration with Moderna would hopefully and likely be rey within 3 months," Dr. Tony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in briefing. 

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Coronavirus outbreak

vel coronavirus has surpassed death toll of 774 recorded globally during 2002-2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that originated in China. 2019-nCoV, official name of coronavirus is a highly contagious and life-threatening disease that started in December last year. 

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According to latest media reports, outbreak of dely coronavirus has claimed more than 800 lives in China alone and confirmed reported cases have reached up to 34,000 as of February 8. disease is believed to have originated in a seafood market in Hubei's Wuhan city, epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, where animals were reportedly being tred illegally. As per US CDC, confirmed cases of virus have been reported in 27 or countries.

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15:38 IST, February 9th 2020