Breakthrough in Coronavirus vaccine: Israel may soon announce a vaccine for COVID-19
New Delhi/IBNS: Scientists in Israel may soon announce a vaccine for novel coronavirus, media reports said, as the deadly virus continues to spread and take lives.
According to a Times Now report, Israel’s Institute for Biological Research has finished the development of SARS-CoV-2 virus vaccine after understanding the biological mechanism and characteristics of the virus which has so far killed 4,292 people and infected 124,101 people across 113 countries.
The report said that the vaccine may not be available anytime soon as it is yet to go through pre-clinical testing on animals followed by clinical trials, which may take months. However, since COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by WHO, this process may be hastened, the report added.
Ynet, an Israeli news organization, has said that five shipments of samples collected from Japan, Italy and some other countries have reached Israel and have been frozen at -80 degrees celsius. After the samples arrived Institute for Biological Research located in the central Israeli town of Nes Tziona, intensive work is going on led by leading scientists of the country.
Earlier, US Biotech firm, Moderna, had also announced that it has completed the development of a vaccine called mRNA-1273 for COVID-19. However, trials for the vaccine will only start from April and end this summer, ruling out its availability soon to curb the spread of the virus
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