European Medicines Agency: coronavirus vaccine could be ready for approval in a year

A vaccine for the new coronavirus could be approved in about a year's time in an "optimistic" scenario, the European Medicines Agency said on Thursday.

The EMA's head of vaccines, Marco Cavaleri, said he was skeptical of claims it could be ready by September.

"For vaccines, since the development has to start from scratch ... we might look from an optimistic side in a year from now, so beginning of 2021," he told journalists.

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