EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she is hopeful that a coronavirus vaccine will be available on the market ‘perhaps before autumn’. There is as yet no vaccine against the novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in China last year and has in recent weeks become a fast-moving ...
Political leaders “underestimated” the magnitude of the danger posed by the coronavirus, the president of the European Commission admitted on Wednesday (March 18), as the EU shut its borders. “I think that all of us who are not experts initially underestimated the coronavirus,” Ursula von der Leyen told Germany’s Bild ...