With coronavirus cases around the world now at over 4.7 million, scientists have been working around the clock to develop a vaccine.
A human vaccine trial is currently underway in Oxford, with a vaccine promised for 30 million Brits by September if it proves successful.
Now, one expert has revealed that the virus ‘could burn out naturally’ before a vaccine is developed. Professor Karol Sikora, former director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Cancer Programme, tweeted the claims over the weekend.
He wrote: “There is a real chance that the virus will burn out naturally before any vaccine is developed. “We are seeing a roughly similar pattern everywhere - I suspect we have more immunity than estimated. “We need to keep slowing the