Desperately seeking a COVID-19 vaccine -- the race is on

To date the novel coronavirus has killed about 590,000 people worldwide and infected close to 14 million in 196 countries since the outbreak first emerged in China late last year.

The duo concerned are a European project being developed at Oxford University in tandem with AstraZeneca and a Chinese variant from biopharmaceutical company Sinovac in collaboration with Brazilian research institute Butantan. Britain, Canada and the United States this week accused Moscow-linked hackers of targeting labs in their countries conducting coronavirus vaccine research.There's a variety of approaches and techniques across proven or experimental vaccines. Some teams work on inactivated"classic" vaccines which use a virus germ that has been"killed" while others, known as attenuated or weakened varieties, involve using a live virus rendered less virulent.

Jean-François Delfraissy, chairman of France's scientific council which has been guiding the French authorities on the issue throughout the pandemic so far, said claims have to be closely probed as the commercial effect of a potential, but unconfirmed, breakthrough can be huge. The Trump administration has set up"Operation Warp Speed" in a bid to deliver 300 million doses, essentially for US citizens, of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January. Firms"are trying to develop a vaccine and at the same time put in place an industrial process to produce it whereas normally you wait to see the results" of the first of those operations, notes Delfraissy.

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