The University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre says a Corona-Virus vaccine has been produced that is now being tested in animals.

Volker Gerdts CEO and Director of VIDO-InterVac explains that everything learned from the first SARS outbreak, along with MERS and other coronavirus infections in animals gives a good idea what this vaccine will have to look like. He added that he is pretty positive the vaccine will work, but the vaccine would need to be sent away to clinical studies before it would be safe for human use.

Gerdts added that they are currently a few weeks away from finishing this stage of research.

This past week VIDO-InterVac was also the recipient of almost $1 million in funding from the federal government, that was part of a $27 million initiative to expedite research.

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