Hong Kong researchers develop vaccine to fight deadly Coronovirus

Hong Kong researchers have already developed a vaccine for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus
 – but need time to test it, The South China Morning Post reports, citing infectious diseases expert Professor Yuen Kwok-yung.

Scientists in mainland China and the United States were also separately racing to produce a vaccine for the new coronavirus, which has killed more than 100 people and infected thousands.

Yuen, chair of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, revealed that his team was working on the vaccine and had isolated the previously unknown virus from the city’s first imported case.

“We have already produced the vaccine, but it will take a long time to test on animals,” Yuen said, without giving a specific time frame on when it would be ready for patients.