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Only one vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in the world is the second stage of clinical trials.

In the world of work 119 projects of a vaccine against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, announced on April 28, the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine, reports gordonua.com.

110 drugs undergo preclinical testing, eight are in the first stage of clinical trials. Only one vaccine developed by the Chinese company Sinopharm, moved on to the second stage, when studied its effectiveness.

Most laboratories and pharmaceutical companies, trying to create a vaccination against COVID-19 are located in China. Also work is going in the US, UK and EU countries.

Flash coronavirus infection COVID-19 began in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan. March 11, the world health organization declared the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the American Johns Hopkins University on April 28, the total number of infected people in the world exceeded 3,06 million, of which 212 thousand died, 906 thousand recovered.

Special medications from coronavirus infection does not exist now in this disease is only symptomatic treatment.