If no action at all had been taken against the coronavirus it would have claimed 510,000 lives, the team's report said. The Imperial scientists emphasised there will be no end in sight to the measures until a vaccine is created. The report said vaccination was the 'only exit strategy' from the draconian measures announced yesterday. Scientists around the world are in various stages of attempts to make a coronavirus vaccine, with some already trialling their jabs on human patients. US researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine on Monday, leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2020 09:18 UTC