WHO chief: Vaccine will not be enough to stop pandemic

16 November 2020, 2:07 pm

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The head of the World Health Organization says that a vaccine will not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic.

The pandemic is raging months after it broke out, with infections soaring past 54 million and claiming more than 1.3 million lives.

“A vaccine will complement the other tools we have, not replace them,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. “A vaccine on its own will not end the pandemic.”

Tedros says that supplies of the vaccine would initially be restricted, with “health workers, older people and other at-risk populations (to) be prioritized. That will hopefully reduce the number of deaths and enable the health systems to cope.”

— AFP