WHO Chief Scientist: Mass vaccination against COVID-19 could start in mid-2021



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“We now have more than 20 candidate vaccines in clinical trials. Hopefully some of them will work. It wouldn’t be very successful if they didn’t all work,” he said.

“If we were very practical, we can think of 2021. in between when we have a vaccine that can be widely used. Of course, it is not possible to make an accurate forecast,” said Swaminathan.

According to the researcher, the vaccine development process is “the fastest in history”. She emphasized that only three months passed between the publication of the coronavirus genome and the first vaccine trials.

COVID-19 began rolling out in Wuhan, China, late last year. Since then, the coronavirus has spread worldwide and has killed more than 600,000 people. persons. The number of infected people now exceeds 14 million.

The country most affected by the pandemic is the United States.

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