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Saskatchewan researchers have been tapped to assist in a global effort to find a vaccine for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 100,000 people around the globe since it was first detected in central China in 2019.
The University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) will receive nearly $1 million to expedite work on COVID-19, part of a$26.7 million research package from the federal government.�?
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Dr. Volker Gerdts, the centre’s director, said the team has been working on a vaccine since receiving approval from the public health agency in January. The centre’s level three containment facility is one of the relatively few in Canada with the protocols to safely contain the disease while scientists test a vaccine.
“With the number of new cases being reported outside of China, I think this research is now even more important than when we started,” Gerdts said.