"A vaccine against COVID-19 should be a public good for the world. Sanofi, which has urged stronger European coordination in the hunt for a vaccine and has US financial support, clarified that any such vaccine would be made available to all. Fauci and other US health experts have said it would likely be at least a year before a vaccine was available. The World Health Organisation is leading a global initiative to develop a vaccine. The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which approves medicines for the European Union, said on Thursday a vaccine could be approved in about a year in an "optimistic" scenario.

Source: bd News24 May 14, 2020 15:11 UTC