2005. China uses their SARS-CoV vaccine: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged infectious disease caused by SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV)"

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https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-4-21

The mutation rate in the SARS-CoV genome was estimated to be 0.80 – 2.38 × 10-3 nucleotide substitution per site per year which is in the same order of magnitude as other RNA viruses.