COVID-19 vaccine ready & coming within weeks: President Donald Trump at final presidential debate with Biden

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a COVID-19 vaccine is "rey" and going to be anunced "within weeks" to combat dely disease that has killed over 223,000 Americans, as he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for final time before presidential election.

debate, just less than two weeks ahe of crucial presidential elections on vember 3, started with opening remarks by both candidates when mike of or was muted.

coronavirus dominated opening minutes of Trump-Biden face-off with President Trump terming contagion a worldwide problem.

This has been a worldwide problem, but I've been congratulated by many countries on what we've been able to do, he said at debate held in Nashville, Tennessee.

"We have a vaccine that's coming, it's rey. It's going to be anunced within weeks and it's going to be delivered, President said, ding that companies like Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer are doing very well on that front.

Trump claimed that he h done a good job with a worldwide pandemic, saying country needs to learn to live with it.

Responding to President, Biden said that Trump has plan.

He always says people are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it, Biden said.

I will take care of this. I will make sure we have a plan, former vice president said.

Biden said that this is a dark winter as he came down heavily on Trump ministration's handling of pandemic.

Trump praised US response to pandemic, claiming that crisis is going away.

On question of lockdown, Trump said: We don't have ability to lock ourselves in basement.

We're t going to shut down and we have to open our schools, Trump said. cure cant be worse than problem itself, Trump said.

According to Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, coronavirus has so far infected more than 41 million people and killed over 1.1 million people globally. US is worst affected country with over 8 million cases and 223,000 deaths.

(Im: AP)