Corona virus vaccine could be ready within 3-4 weeks :Donald Trump

[poornima lagadapati]

In a big boost to the expectations regarding the covid-19 vaccine, US President Donald Trump has said that the vaccine for the deadly coronavirus may be available within a month.

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At a town hall event hosted by a news channel Donald Trump said that the shot could be ready within four weeks.

"We're very close to having a vaccine. We're within weeks of getting it you know -- could be three weeks, four weeks," he said.

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"The previous administration would have taken perhaps years to have a vaccine, because of the FDA and all the approvals," Trump said.

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

Trump sat inside the Lincoln Memorial and fielded questions from two Fox hosts, as well as from people who submitted questions over Fox's social media platforms. Trump responded to a Nebraska man who recovered from COVID-19 by saying: "We think we are going to have a vaccine by the end of this year." He also said his administration was pushing hard for remdesivir. U.S. public health officials have said a vaccine is probably a year to 18 months away. But Dr. Anthony Fauci said in late April that it's conceivable, if a vaccine is developed soon, it could be in wide distribution as soon as January.