WHO Chief: Only vaccine is not enough in the defeat of pandemic

“Vaxina will complete the other means we have and will not replace them”, Ghebraesus said at a meeting of the WHO Executive Council.

When it comes to the vaccine, WHO chief, but other officials of the organisation, have been trying to lower the optimism sparked in recent days, as Pfizer and BioNTech companies' labs announced that their vaccine, which is in the third phase of testing, is 90 percent effective.

“Initially, the amounts will be limited, and for this reason medical personnel, the elderly and the endangered persons will have priority and we hope that this will reduce the number of deaths and allow health systems to survive”, said Ghereseus, warning that “will still have much room for the spread of the virus”.

Therefore, he called for measures to control the spread of the coronary, such as testing, quarantine and monitoring of contacts, not to be abolished prematurely.

A new wave of pandemic has forced many countries to take additional restrictions to curb the spread of the virus.

The first coronavirus cases were presented in late 2019 in China. US President Donald Trump's administration has accused China of hiding information about the virus.

In March O The BSH declared the pandemic of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronary.

According to Johns Hopkins University, headquartered in the United States, more than 54 million people have been infected worldwide so far, of which over 1 million and 300 thousand have died. / REL