The Jerusalem Post reports:
A team of Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against coronavirus,
according to Israel’s Minister of Science and Technology, Ofir Akunis.
If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within three weeks
and available in 90 days.“Congratulations
to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting
breakthrough. I am confident that there will be further rapid progress,
enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19
threat,” Akunis said, referring to the disease caused by the novel
coronavirus.For the past four years, a team of MIGAL scientists has been developing a vaccine against
infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which causes a bronchial disease
affecting poultry, and whose effectiveness has been proven in
pre-clinical trials carried out at the Veterinary Institute.
Hopefully this pans out. Testing for FDA approval, however, still takes a year.