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In good news about the Corona vaccine that has destroyed stones and people, infecting around 50 million people worldwide and taking a heavy toll on the global economy, the US companies “Pfizer” and the British companies “Biontech” announced Monday that the Covid-19 vaccine they are working to develop is “effective.” In 90%, after preliminary analysis of the results of the third phase of clinical trials, which is the last before submitting the license application.
He also explained that protection against the coronavirus is achieved at a high rate 28 days after taking the first dose, and that it is completed only one week after the second dose.
The two companies said in a joint statement that “this vaccine effectiveness” was measured by comparing the number of participants who were infected with the emerging coronavirus in the group that received the vaccine and the number of infected people in another group that received a vaccine. placebo, “seven days after receiving the second dose” and 28 days after receiving it. The first dose.
Soon there will be a vaccine on the way.
Commenting on this announcement, the German Health Minister confirmed that the results of the third phase of the Pfizer vaccine are very encouraging.
In turn, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, praised this good news. He wrote in a tweet minutes after the two companies announced the matter: “The stock market is seeing a huge surge, a vaccine is on the way soon. Reportedly 90% effective. candy!”.
This occurs while the epidemic registered a new number of victims, according to the latest statistics, amounting to 50 million infected people worldwide.
While the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, emphasized today that the “Covid-19” epidemic has exceeded the limits of the regular health emergency, highlighting the need to see the vaccine as a global public good, not as a private good.
He also pointed out that the epidemic has a negative impact on the fight against other diseases in the world, such as yellow fever in Gabon and Togo, chikungunya fever in Chad, as well as measles in Mexico, among others.
