President Museveni has told Ugandans that the discovery of the coronavirus vaccine may take 18 months.

Museveni made this projection on Monday, May 5 while at Nakasero State House as he addressed the country on the status of coronavirus in the country.

“We are working on the vaccine for coronavirus and other people are doing the same. What is available now is avoidance,” Museveni said.

The coronavirus is spreading around the world, but there are still no vaccines to protect the body against the disease it causes, Covid-19.

Medical researchers around the world are working hard to change that.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year.

“We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end of the year,” Trump said in a Fox News “town hall” show broadcast in Washington, DC.

The vaccine prediction moves up the timeline that has been discussed as the United States and other countries race to be the first to bring out a way to prevent COVID-19.

Trump insisted he would be happy for another country to beat US researchers to the medicine, saying “if it’s another country I’ll take my hat off.”

President Museveni’s projection comes at a time when Uganda is grappling with a total of 89 active cases and 55 recoveries. No death has been confirmed yet.