“The Chinese side is ready to share with the countries concerned the practice of prevention and control (disease), to develop research and development in the field of vaccines and the production of medicines, to assist countries where the outbreak occurred,” TASS quoted him as saying.

The PRC leader noted that the international community should step up its actions and decisively fight the global outbreak of coronavirus and suppress the spread of the epidemic.

Earlier, the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia, Melita Vujnovich, said that the vaccine against the coronavirus infection COVID-19 would appear no earlier than in a year.