US President Donald Trump during his daily White House briefing has revealed that his country is very close to developing the coronavirus vaccine. The revelation comes after vaccine trails have been taking place in US, Germany, United Kingdom, and China. He was joined by Vice-President Mike Pence and Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus taskforce co-ordinator, the BBC reported."We have a lot of great, brilliant minds working on this," he said.After Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence said the data continues to show "promising signs of progress" in the US fight against coronavirus.Major virus hotspots including the New York Metro Area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Detroit and New Orleans "all appear to be past their peak", Pence said.
"Our only conclusion is that we're getting there, America," he added."If we continue these mitigation efforts in the days ahead we do believe by early summer we could be in a much better place as a nation, with much of this coronavirus epidemic behind us."He says 16 states have released formal reopening plans so far. Pence said that 4.93 million coronavirus tests have been completed across the US, adding that commercial labs surpassed 100,000 tests yesterday. Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government's top infectious diseases expert, had previously said that a vaccine will likely take 12-18 months to be approved for widespread use. Most health experts also agree that it would take at least 12-18 months before a vaccine is ready.