Australian researchers race to find coronavirus vaccine


Scientists all over the world are racing to find a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases worldwide surges to over 14,000.

In Australia, the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) has been tasked with developing a system to test out potential vaccines.

“What AAHL has been commissioned to do is develop a system whereby anyone that has a candidate vaccine, so a vaccine which they think will work but they haven’t done the proof of its safety and efficacy, they can plug it into our pipeline and they can whiz it through and get a result very quickly,” Professor Trevor Drew, AAHL Director, told 3AW’s Dee Dee.

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