CDC provides the test kits for public health laboratories (PHLs) to perform real-time RT-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the virus that causes COVID-19) in respiratory specimens. CDC received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on February 4, 2020 for use of this rRT-PCR test to detect the virus in upper and lower respiratory specimens.
There is currently no vaccination available for the COVID-19 disease. It is going to have to be stopped through conventional methods. All major organizations have been working on a successful vaccination however this is something that takes time and testing. They have been working on a vaccine for the other coronaviruses that were discussed at the beginning (SARS / MERS). There has been work underway for a vaccine because the aforementioned coronaviruses are so dangerous and so deadly and are very similar to this one (COVID-19).
