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Research to find vaccines for China coronavirus put on fast lane

So far the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not declared this as a global health emergency

Passengers wear protective face masks at the departure hall of the high speed train station in Hong Kong
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Passengers wear protective face masks at the departure hall of the high speed train station in Hong Kong

Sohini Das Mumbai
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has initiated three programmes to develop vaccines against the new coronavirus that has led to an outbreak in China. 

Speaking on the sidelines of the annual conference of the Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR), Gagandeep Kang, executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), an autonomous institute under the department of biotechnology (DBT), said, “The idea for this is can we get a vaccine in four months and keep reducing that time? With at least two weeks from the sequence of the virus, we have three companies develop these vaccines.”