Italian scientists have announced that production of the first coronavirus vaccine will begin in September this year.
The drug is scheduled to go on sale in January 2021, Qadin.Net reports. Currently, British and Italian experts are working on a vaccine called ChAdOx1.
"ChAdOx1 has already been successfully tested on 1,000 patients. We are now in the third phase of testing. If the results are good, we can assume that large-scale production will begin in late September," said Piero Di Lorenzo, head of Italian biotechnology company Irbm.
It is expected to be one of the first coronavirus vaccines developed in Europe. Di Lorenzo suggests that the vaccine should be given primarily to at-risk citizens. It will probably cost about 2-3 euros.
According to preliminary agreements, citizens of Italy, the Netherlands, France and Germany will receive the vaccine first. At the same time, the head of the Italian company is confident that vaccination will continue rapidly. According to him, in 12 months the world will be completely free of the virus.