The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that a vaccine against the coronavirus disease will be ready for registration by the end of 2020 or early next year at the earliest, Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO chief scientist, said on Monday.
“As you know, we now have about 40 candidate vaccines at some stage of clinical trials, and 10 of them are in phase three, which are late-stage clinical trials, which will inform us about efficacy and safety. . So the best we could guess or predict, looking at when a test started and when you likely have enough data to send to regulators, is [at] from December 2020 to early 2021, ”Swaminathan told reporters.
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Countries have been developing dozens of vaccines since the outbreak began earlier this year, but so far none have passed WHO-approved phase 3 trials. Many vaccines are expected to be registered with WHO by the end of the year.
To date, more than 37 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with more than 1.07 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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