ROME, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The news that trials for a vaccine from two leading pharmaceutical companies show it to be 90 percent effective against the coronavirus helped send European markets surging and a wave of positive headlines on news sites.
United States-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German immunotherapy company BioNTech announced Monday that a vaccine they are jointly developing was effective in preventing infection in at least 9 of 10 cases measured against a placebo.
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