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(FILES) In this file photo, Dr. Nita Patel, Director of Antibody Discovery and Vaccine Development, holds up a vial with a potential coronavirus vaccine, COVID-19, at Novavax Labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on March 20, 2020, one of the labs. developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, COVID-19. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
GENEVA – A vaccine against COVID-19 could be ready by the end of the year, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without giving further details.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressing the end of a two-day meeting of its Executive Board on the pandemic, said: “We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we can have a vaccine. There is hope.”
Nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHO-led global COVAX vaccine facility, which aims to deliver 2 billion doses by the end of 2021.
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