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The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed the opinion that the vaccines that are currently being created, together with the sanitary measures taken, will help to end the coronavirus pandemic.
Latest News on Coronavirus Experimental Vaccine Trials Inspire Optimism to Address the Pandemic COVID-19… The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said this today during a briefing, writes “Nimetska Khvilya”.
“With the latest positive data from vaccine trials, the light at the end of this long dark tunnel is getting brighter. There is now real hope that vaccines, along with public health measures, will help end the COVID-19 pandemic, “he said.
The WHO chief asked rich countries to allocate more money to help poor countries.
“This is not an act of charity, but the fastest and most sustainable way to end the COVID-19 pandemic and stimulate the global economy,” Gebreyesus said.
According to the head of the WHO, the program developed for these purposes requires $ 4.3 billion for its implementation this year alone. Funds are supposed to be allocated for the purchase and delivery of a large number of vaccines, tests and drugs. To implement this program, WHO will need another $ 23.8 billion next year, he added.
Pfizer has announced that the BNT162b2 vaccine against COVID-19, developed jointly with BioNTech of Germany, is 95% effective. The companies expect to produce up to 50 million doses of the vaccine in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion by the end of 2021. Gebreyesus called the Pfizer vaccine “very promising.” Pfizer has already sold about 82% of the doses of its coronavirus vaccine.
Competitor BNT162b2 – inmRNA-1273 vaccine from the American biotechnology company Moderna – showed an efficiency of 94.5% in the third test stage.
A vaccine against coronavirus infection, developed by the University of Oxford in conjunction with the Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca, in the third phase of clinical trials, demonstrated an efficacy of 70.4%.
As of November 12, according to the World Health Organization, 48 COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers worldwide are candidates for clinical evaluation of the vaccine produced. More than 150 companies carry out preclinical trials.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic. By data Johns Hopkins UniversityAs of November 23, 59 million cases of COVID-19 were detected in the world, 1.39 million people died, 37.6 million recovered.
