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LESLIE SHAFFER, DealStreetAsia
SINGAPORE -- As the new coronavirus spreads across the globe and devastates communities, companies are racing to develop a vaccine, with the U.K.'s Emergex becoming the latest to divert resources from other projects, including the development of a dengue fever vaccine, to work on COVID-19.