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Last updated 16 April 2020

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COVID-19 vaccine."We are willing to work with anybody that's going to get us a good result," Trump said on Tuesday when asked whether he would be ready to work with China if it were first to develop a vaccine.Trump noted that progress is being made in the United States regarding COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccine development."We're doing very well with vaccine development and therapeutic development," he said.Trump also said a potential vaccine is going to arrive much sooner than expected and become available immediately as the US military will assist in distributing it.The novel coronavirus pandemic started in China last December in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province.

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On 31 December 2019, WHO was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Chinese authorities identified the SARS-CoV-2 as the causative virus on 7 January 2020, and the disease was named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by WHO on 11 February 2020. As part of WHO’s response to the outbreak, a Research and Development (R&D) Blueprint has been activated to accelerate the development of diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics for this novel coronavirus.

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