7 hours agoWHO head with grim warnings for COVID-19 vaccine
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there may never be a perfect vaccine for COVID-19, and that the road to normality will be long. More than 18 million people worldwide are reported to have been infected by the new choreography that causes COVID-19, and 688,080 have [...]
More than 18 million people worldwide have been reportedly infected by the new choreography that causes COVID-19, and 688,080 have died, according to a Reuters report.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrreesus and WHO emergency head Mike Ryan urged nations to rigorously implement health measures such as wearing mask, physical distance, washing hands and testing.
“Message for people and governments is clear: Make it all”, Ghebrreesus said at a virtual news conference from O headquarters. The BSH in Geneva.
He said masks on the face should become a symbol of solidarity worldwide.
A number of vaccines are now in the third phase of clinical studies, and we all hope to have effective vaccines, which can help prevent infection. However, there is no silver bullets against COVID-19 at the moment and perhaps there may never be”, he said.
According to WHO leader, there are concerns that “we may not have a vaccine that will work, or protection from it may be in just a few months, no more”.
However, he said nothing is known until clinical trials are completed.
