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Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp has said a vaccine for COVID-19 could be ready by the autumn.
Hopp is also the primary investor in German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, which is working on a vaccine for the coronavirus.
He was asked how long it could take to be available to the public and told Sport1's Reinhard Franke (h/t Goal's James Westwood): "That depends on the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute (the German institute for vaccines). It has to be tested first with animals and then with human beings. But I think it could be available in autumn at the time when possibly the next wave of infections will come.