A proposed Coronavirus vaccine, developed by German company BioNTech and US drug giant Pfizer, has been granted the green light for human trials.
The trial will begin with 200 healthy people, aged between 18 and 55, being given the vaccine, according to BBC.
“This is a good sign that the development of a vaccine in Germany is so progressed that we can start with the first studies,” the country’s health minister, Jens Spahn, said Wednesday.
“At the same time the advice remains important that it will take months. This is an injection in the body. Safety first is the guideline for such a vaccine.”
Only a handful of vaccine candidates have been approved for clinical testing on humans globally, and experts caution that it will take at least a year for a viable vaccine to be developed.
Scientists at the UK’s Oxford University are starting human trials of a possible vaccine this week. Other clinical trials are taking place in the US and China.
