China's chief medical officer has claimed that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready for emergency use by September. Speaking on a video call to state-controlled media outlet CGTN, Dr Gao Fu explained the possibility of a vaccine which could be made available for priority people, such as healthcare workers.
He said: "The vaccine will be used for the healthy population, you want to make sure the vaccine you are developing is safe, 'maybe it works' – you don't want the word maybe, you want to make sure it's safe...
and it really works for other people." "We are in the frontline for the vaccine development, maybe by September, we might have a vaccine to be used for emergencies. "For example, if we have some emergency outbreak again, the newly