vaccine against the new Coronavirus could be approved, according to the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute (PEI) at the earliest the end of this, at the beginning of next year.

an Institute spokeswoman said on Thursday.

According to the confusion about the revocation information of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) confirmed this on Thursday on the request information, the PEI President Klaus Cichutek in a number of media had expressed.

The editorial network Germany (RND) had Cichutek said a few days ago: "I assume that it will be the end of 2020, and at the beginning of next year, authorisations, provided that the Phase III testing data are positive."

In these current studies, it is checked whether a vaccine is actually protecting against infection. First approvals do not mean that all vaccinated can be.

The PEI, with headquarters in the Hessian town of Langen in Germany for the approval of vaccines. In a Wednesday afternoon paper published by the RKI was read to provisional forecasts, the availability of a vaccine until the fall of 2020 seem to be possible.

a Few hours later, the Institute moved back to the Online publication, it was an accidentally released the older Version. On Thursday, a RKI spokeswoman pointed to estimates made by the PEI.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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