Germany: Coronavirus Vaccine Unlikely to Be Widely Available Before Mid-2021

German Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek gets information about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) research at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn, Germany, on May 18, 2020. Martin Meissner/Pool via Reuters

BERLIN—Germany awarded three biotech companies grants to help them speed up the development of coronavirus vaccine candidates, but Research Minister Anja Karliczek said any vaccine was unlikely to be widely available before the middle of next year.