A ‘safe and effective’ vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease could be ready by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we can have a vaccine. There is hope,” …
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Tuesday that the health organization has no guarantee whether any vaccine in development for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) will work. “We have no guarantee that any vaccine in development will work. The more candidates we analyze, the greater …
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WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said at a briefing in Geneva that discussions are underway to make India part of the WHO global vaccine plan ‘Covax’. WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said at a briefing in Geneva that discussions are underway to make India part of the WHO global vaccine …
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GENEVA: The World Health Organization is in talks with India to join the global ‘Covax’ vaccine allocation plan, a senior WHO adviser said on Monday. “India is certainly eligible, like every country in the world, to be part of the Covax facility and discussions are ongoing about it,” Bruce Aylward …
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries around the world to join forces to tackle the coronavirus on Friday, saying that “vaccine nationalism” would only delay the response to the pandemic. Tedros said 78 high-income countries had joined the global “COVAX” vaccine allocation plan, bringing the total to 170 …
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The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine because it does not want to be limited by multilateral groups such as the World Health Organization. The decision to act alone, first reported by The Washington Post, …
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