Coronavirus vaccine ‘will be ready by early next year’

Coronavirus vaccine ‘will be ready by early next year’

SinoVac, one of China’s pharmaceutical companies behind a leading Covid-19 vaccine candidate says its vaccine will be ready by early 2021 for distribution worldwide Picture: Ng Han Guan/AP

A Chinese pharmaceutical company has said the coronavirus vaccine it is developing should be ready by early 2021 for distribution worldwide.

Yin Weidong, the chief executive of SinoVac, vowed to apply to the US Food and Drug Administration to sell CoronaVac there if it passes its third and final round of testing in humans.

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