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The founder of BioNTech, one of the developers of the Covid-19 vaccine produced in collaboration with Pfizer, believes that the virus will be under control in most European countries by the end of the summer of 2021.
“In many European countries and the United States, we will probably not need lockdowns until late summer,” he told Welt am Sonntag, quoted by Mediafax. “There will be outbreaks, but there will only be background noise. There will be mutations, but they will not scare us.”
Ugur Shahin’s assessment is framed in the context in which the vaccination campaign in the European Union does not develop at the speed of other countries such as the United States, Israel or the United Kingdom. Both the European Commission and the governments of the Member States have been criticized for this reason.
Ugur Shahin, however, was optimistic, saying the problems would be temporary, adding that 70% of Germans may be vaccinated by the end of September, when the virus will cause fewer problems. Almost 9% of the German population had received at least the first dose of the vaccine on Saturday, while the United Kingdom was in the middle, with 50% of adults receiving at least one dose.
The spouses Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, co-founders of BioNTech, were awarded two days ago by the German president with one of the highest distinctions of the German state, for the development of the world’s first anti-COVID serum.
Publisher: Adrian Dumitru
