Financial markets in Europe and the U.S. jumped Wednesday morning with traders reportedly buoyed by scientific efforts to treat the new coronavirus.
Early Wednesday, Sky News reported a “significant breakthrough” by scientists at Imperial College London in the U.K., who claim to have reduced a stage of the development time for a coronavirus vaccine from “two to three years to just 14 days.”
The lead scientist told the media outlet he would start testing it on animals as early as next week. Another separate media report out of China Wednesday claimed that researchers within the country had found two separate drugs that can inhibit the effect of the new strain of the coronavirus.
