In the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University Hospital in Tübingen, a man is holding a syringe with which a young woman, the first test person, was injected with a potential active substance against the corona virus./Credit:	Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance/Getty Images

In the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University Hospital in Tübingen, a man is holding a syringe with which a young woman, the first test person, was injected with a potential active substance against the corona virus./Credit: Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance/Getty Images

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