German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says it has begun testing a potential vaccine for the new coronavirus on volunteers.Turkish-born...
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says it has begun testing a potential vaccine for the new coronavirus on volunteers.
Numerous pharmaceutical companies are racing to deliver a vaccine for the virus that has caused a pandemic and led to more than 215,000 deaths worldwide and sickened at least three million people. “If things go right … to get to scale of manufacturing in the hundreds of millions is going to be in the second half of next year,” CEO Emma Walmsley told a media briefing after the release of first-quarter results.
“You will see a reasonable amount of consensus from many global authorities, when this was all emerging, an 18-month timeline was an ambitious one to be going after but one that everyone is ”, Walmsley said.More than 70 global vaccine development projects are underway as economies across the globe are burdened by restrictions on movement to slow the spread of the disease.
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