Trump says US to have coronavirus vaccine by end of year

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year.

"We are very confident that we're going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end of the year," Trump said in a Fox News "town hall" show broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

He also said he would urge the reopening of schools and universities in September, saying "I want them to go back."

AFP