Donald Trump touts progress toward COVID-19 vaccine

TIL Desk/World/Washington/US President Donald Trump has highlighted the progress on the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, in an effort to project optimism about the administration’s response to the ongoing pandemic.

Trump on Monday visited a biotech facility in North Carolina to boast of the rapid progress on finding a vaccine to combat the pandemic, claiming his administration’s work through its vaccine development effort, Operation Warp Speed, had reduced the wait time by “years”,.

He hailed the project as a “historic initiative to develop, test, manufacture and deliver a vaccine in record time”. Trump, as he has previously, said that he believed a vaccine could be available by the end of the year.