that was dr marco van gunnoe a critical care physician speaking to us earlier. now let's get a roundup of some of the latest pandemic news the number of people infected with cope with 1000 worldwide now stands at more than 3500000 a must 250000 people have died as a result of contracting the disease new zealand has recorded a day with no new cases for the 1st time since the outbreak started and the country is considering opening up to a travel with australia u.s. president donald trump says he believes america will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year but german health minister against bonn is much less optimistic he believes the race to develop a vaccine could take years for the european commission is hosting a virtual fundraiser to help efforts to develop a vaccine and treatments against the corona virus the event is expected to raise more than 7000000000 euros around the world more than 100 coronavirus vaccine projects have already been launched laboratories are taking a different approaches some are using in activated forms of the virus while ot