LONDON - Britain launched a new coronavirus taskforce on Friday to support efforts to make a vaccine available to the public as quickly as possible.The government said 21 new research projects would get funding from a 14 million pound investment pool"to rapidly progress treatments and vaccines.
While the Oxford scientists said their vaccine would be available by September, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi SA, who earlier this week said they would develop a vaccine, forecast that it would not be available until the second half of 2021.Britain's government said it wanted a vaccine to be available as quickly as possible but did not give more details on an expected timetable for development.
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