A group of scientists researching for coronavirus vaccine at United Kingdom claimed they had a significant breakthrough by reducing a part of the normal development time from “two to three years to just 14 days”, reported Sky News.
Professor Robin Shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial College London said they will start testing the vaccines on animals as early as next week.
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“And we will have it in animal models by the beginning of next week. We’ve short-tracked that part. The next phase will be to move that from early animal testing into the first human studies,” he said.
Shattock hoped they can continue to the next phase, the human studies if they will get enough funding.
“And we think with adequate funding we could do that in a period of a few months,” he said.
Scientists around the world are racing against time to develop a vaccine before the novel coronavirus grows into a pandemic.
As of this writing, China reported 563 fatalities and 28,000 individuals who contracted the disease.
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