A coronavirus vaccine could be ready before the end of 2020, according to the EU's top health official

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• A coronavirus vaccine could be ready to roll out as early as this year, according to the EU's health commissioner Stella Kyriakides.
• She said: 'Although making predictions is risky at this point, we have good indications that the first vaccine will be available toward the end of this year or beginning of next year."
• Scientists have not yet established whether it will even be possible to create an effective vaccine against the coronavirus.
• The World Health Organisation warned last week that there may never be a 'silver bullet' in the form of a vaccine.
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A coronavirus vaccine could be ready to roll out this year or early next year, according to the EU's health commissioner.

Stella Kyriakides told German newspaper Handelsbatt: "Although making predictions is risky at this point, we have good indications that the first vaccine will be available toward the end of this year or beginning of next year."

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