Researchers make strides in race to create coronavirus vaccine

International teams accelerate efforts to find effective immunisation method

• Coronavirus - latest updates

Researchers racing to produce a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus believe they may have taken significant steps towards finding an effective method of immunisation.

At least three pharmaceutical companies, as well as teams of researchers around the world, have been working on different approaches to producing an effective vaccine. These efforts accelerated after Chinese academics publicly posted the genetic sequence for the virus.