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Corona vaccines will not arrive in earnest in EU countries until April next year, says European Commission Director Ursula von der Leyen, according to the Reuters news agency.
– The large quantity of supplies will start in April, von der Leyen told a press conference, adding that in the best case, companies can deliver up to 50 million vaccines to the EU per month.
WHO: – The vaccine will not be the end
Rapid tests
The press conference also revealed that the EU will spend 100 million euros, or almost 1.1 billion crowns, on rapid tests for the coronavirus, as Europe enters a second wave of infection.
– Rapid antigen tests are entering the market. They can play an important role and we will now propose how they can be approved in the EU, said von der Leyen.
– No final solution
The European head of the WHO, Hans Kluge, warned earlier this fall against the belief that a vaccine would solve the crown crisis. The director general of the Swedish Public Health Authority, Johan Carlson, and the Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, have also made it clear that a vaccine alone does not mean a solution to the corona pandemic in Sweden, according to Aftonbladet.
– A future vaccine will likely be an important tool in the fight against the pandemic. However, it is not a tool that finally solves the problem. A vaccine alone cannot stop the pandemic, the important preventive measures that we must have in the foreseeable future, said Carlson, who is the Swedish director general of what corresponds to the National Institute of Public Health in this country.
– 100 million doses before the end of the year
Mission of the century
The international aviation organization IATA has started making plans for how the vaccine will reach the world when it is finally ready.
“The safe delivery of covid-19 vaccines will be the mission of the century for the global aviation industry,” IATA Executive Director Alexandre de Juniac said in a press release.
