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[MELBOURNE] A vaccine that's been used to prevent tuberculosis is being given to healthcare workers in Melbourne to see if it will protect them against the coronavirus.
[SYDNEY] Australian researchers are fast-tracking large-scale human testing to see if a vaccine used for decades to prevent tuberculosis can protect health workers from Covid-19, they announced on...
[WASHINGTON] There is a strong chance the new coronavirus could return in seasonal cycles, a senior US scientist said on Wednesday, underscoring the urgent need to find a vaccine and effective...
[TOKYO] Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Anges Inc said on Tuesday it and partner Osaka University had completed development of a prophylactic DNA vaccine against the new coronavirus and that it...
PERSPECTIVE
A GLOBAL arms race for a coronavirus vaccine is underway.
[NEW YORK] US drugmaker Pfizer Inc has signed a deal with Germany's BioNTech SE to co-develop a potential vaccine for the coronavirus using BioNTech's mRNA-based drug development platform, the...
[SYDNEY] Australian researchers said on Tuesday they have mapped the immune responses from one of country's first novel coronavirus patients, findings the health minister said were an important...
[WASHINGTON] The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease has begun in Seattle, US health officials said on Monday.
[BERLIN] A German biotech firm on Monday flatly denied newspaper reports that US president Donald Trump had offered to pay for exclusive rights to a coronavirus vaccine.
[BERLIN] The German government promised on Sunday to defend itself against alleged attempts by US president Donald Trump to buy exclusive rights to a German company's research into a vaccine...
[LONDON] UK pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said Monday it was joining a global race to develop a vaccine for a new strain of a coronavirus that has killed more than 360 people.
