Coronavirus Q When will there be a vaccine and when will testing kits be available? Our expert answers your questions

Scientists are in a race against time to better understand the novel coronavirus that is wreaking havoc the world over. Their findings will help shape the future trajectory of the pandemic - and determine how quickly it can be brought to a close.

Globally close to 1.3 million people have been confirmed to have the coronavirus - though experts estimate that millions more have been infected, but not tested. The death toll is now nearing 70,000, including almost 5,000 fatalities in the UK.

So where have experts got to in terms of understanding the symptoms and developing treatments and vaccines? How long will it be until we have more tools to fight the coronavirus?

“When this began, the word I’d use to describe how we were working is desperation,” Nick Cammack, therapeutics accelerator lead at the Wellcome Trust, told The Telegraph. “But increasingly there is this spirit of collaboration… science is the exit strategy.”

Over lunchtime on Monday, the Daily Telegraph's Global Health Security reporter Sarah Newey asnwered your questions on the race to develop a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19. A selection of the best answers from Monday's Q&A can be found below.

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