A coronavirus vaccine probably won't be ready before the end of 2021, according to a Swiss pharmaceutical giant
A researcher works on virus replication in order to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus COVID-19, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on March 26, 2020.A coronavirus vaccine will "most likely" not be ready before the end of 2021, according to the head of the world's second-largest pharmaceutical company.
Antibody tests, which could be launched as early as May, will determine whether someone has had the COVID-19 infection. However, Severin Schwan, Roche's chief executive, told a conference call on Wednesday that: "According to the most likely scenario, we will not have a vaccination before the end of next year,"He said that antibody tests, rather than a vaccine, would be key to allowing people to return to normal life before 2021.
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