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The CEO of the German company Biontec, which developed a vaccine with “Pfizer” against the emerging corona virus, on the possibility of returning to normal life next winter.
Professor Ugur Shaheen told the BBC that it was “absolutely necessary” to have a high level of vaccination before the fall of 2021.
He explained that “if all goes well, we will start delivering the vaccine at the end of this year.”
He added that “our goal is to deliver more than 300 million doses of the vaccine until next April, which will allow us to begin to impact” against the virus that has killed more than 1.3 million people in the world.
“The biggest impact will be until the summer, which will help us anyway, because the infection rate will decrease,” he said.
“It is very necessary that we have a great vaccination rate before the fall / winter of next year. I am sure this will happen,” he said, explaining that several vaccine manufacturers called for an increase in production, adding: “We could have a normal winter next year. “
Dr. Shaheen said in an interview with the Al-Jazeera news channel last Thursday that they are currently working with a number of institutions that will provide the vaccine to poor countries, stressing that it is important to produce sufficient quantities of the vaccine to that is available in all parts of the world, explaining that this is one of the objectives that they work. about his.
And on the effectiveness of the vaccine, he said that some preliminary data now shows the ability of the vaccine to prevent infection by the virus in more than 90 percent in people who received the vaccine, and this indicates that its effectiveness is very high, adding that they are about to get more data over the next two to three weeks. .
He added that currently available data show “primary protection” (that is, in the initial period following the administration of the vaccine), but they believe that the vaccine can remain stable in terms of effectiveness for months or even a year, but assess this matter requires lengthy study.
According to Pfizer and Biontech, the vaccine is “90 percent effective” against Covid-19, according to the large-scale trial of the third phase, which is still ongoing, which is the last stop before approval is requested.
There are many other vaccines at this stage of research, indicating the possibility of returning to normal.
The new Corona virus has killed 1,313,471 people around the world since the outbreak was reported in China in late December 2019, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official sources.
More than 54,001,750 people around the world have been infected with the emerging coronavirus, of which at least 34,599,700 have recovered to date.
This toll was prepared from data collected by Agence France-Presse offices of the competent national authorities and from information published by the World Health Organization.
These numbers only reflect a fraction of the actual number of injuries, as several countries conduct examinations only for the most serious cases, while other countries prioritize conducting examinations to trace the contacts of the injured, in addition to limited capabilities of test of several poor countries.
On Saturday, 9246 additional deaths were recorded, while 607,998 new infections were accounted for worldwide.
And the countries that registered the highest number of new deaths in the last 24 hours are the United States (1,351), Brazil (921) and Mexico (635).
And the United States is the country most affected by the number of deaths and injuries, with 245,614 deaths of 10,905,598 injuries, according to the Johns Hopkins University census, and at least 4,148,444 people have recovered in the country.
After the United States, the countries most affected by the epidemic are Brazil, which recorded 165,658 deaths out of 5,848,959 cases, then India with 129,635 deaths (8,814,579 cases), Mexico with 98,259 deaths (1,003,253 cases) and the United Kingdom with 51,766 deaths (1,344 cases). 356 injured).
Belgium is the country with the highest number of deaths in relation to its population, with 123 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Peru (107), Spain (87) and Argentina (78).
To date, China has officially counted (not counting Macau and Hong Kong) 4,634 deaths out of 86,338 injuries (13 new injuries between Saturday and Sunday), while 81,319 people have recovered.
The Latin America and Caribbean region recorded 423,176 deaths out of 12,023,640 injured, while Europe recorded 334,968 deaths out of 14,432,068 injured, while the number of deaths announced in the United States and Canada together reached 256,487 (11,195,957 injured).
Asia recorded 181,799 deaths (11,440,026 injuries), the Middle East 68,991 deaths (2,913,735 injuries), Africa 4,7109 deaths (1,966,317 injuries) and Oceania 941 deaths (3,0008 injuries).
Due to modifications made by national authorities to the figures or the delay in their publication, the figures updated during the last 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the result of the previous day.
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