Covid-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end - WHO's Tedros
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06 October, 2020, 08:25 pm
Last modified: 06 October, 2020, 08:26 pm
"We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we may have a vaccine. There is hope"
FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (Covid-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
A vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without elaborating.
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 may have a vaccine. There is hope."
Nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHO-led COVAX global vaccine facility that aims to distribute 2 billion doses by the end of 2021.
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