Researchers at Imperial College London said their ultimate goal was to have an effective and safe way of halting the SARS-like strain’s spread by the end of the year. “At the moment we have just put the vaccine that we’ve generated from these bacteria into mice,” Imperial College London researcher Paul McKay told AFP in an interview on Monday. Imperial College London said it cannot be sure how advanced other teams’ research is at the moment. -AFPImperial College London hopes that research on the SARS coronavirus nearly two decades ago can speed things up. Imperial College London is not working with any of the current teams partnering with CEPI and requires its own sources of funding.

Source: New Strait Times February 11, 2020 13:07 UTC