The World Health Organization declares that the production of a vaccine for the Coronavirus takes 18 months—
International pharmaceutical companies are racing to try to produce a vaccine for the Corona virus, which is widespread in China and a number of countries around the world, as the death toll rose to more than two thousand deaths, after the Health Authority of China’s Hubei Province announced, on Tuesday, the death of 132 new people with the Corona virus.
With fears of a high number of coronavirus infections worldwide, which have so far exceeded 75,000, mostly in China, Richard Brennan, director of regional health emergencies at the World Health Organization, told a press conference in Cairo today, Wednesday, that the production of an emerging coronavirus vaccine will take Between 12 to 18 months.
Attempts to produce a vaccine for the Coronavirus
And because the Corona Virus family has proven after many attempts by scientists to eradicate it, it is a difficult enemy, because it belongs to coronaviruses that cause so far untreatable diseases, such as the common cold, so researchers in the medical field around the world have joined forces to produce a vaccine for the Corona virus. the killer.
Scientists from Australia were able to produce the Corona virus inside the laboratory, which paved the way for finding the vaccine, and scientists from other countries relied on that Australian experience to understand the characteristics of the infection caused by the virus, and scientists in China have come to reproduce the virus, according to the site “B” NBC. ”
Richard Bernan stressed during the conference that the Chinese government is seeking at a rapid pace to control the spread of the virus, and will use the most accurate BCR analysis to prove positive or negative the virus in the human body, which was used with the foreign infected person in Egypt as he confirmed the virus’s negative with it. He remains in isolation for the duration of the incubation period.
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