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Vaccine for new coronavirus 'COVID-19' could be ready in 18 months: WHO

Vaccine for new coronavirus 'COVID-19' could be ready in 18 months: WHO

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 23:28 GMT+7
Vaccine for new coronavirus 'COVID-19' could be ready in 18 months: WHO
Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland February 11, 2020. Photo: Reuters

GENEVA -- The first vaccine targeting China’s coronavirus could be available in 18 months, “so we have to do everything today using available weapons”, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Tuesday.

He said the virus had been named COVID-19, explaining that it was important to avoid stigma and that other names could be inaccurate.

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