COVID-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end: WHO's Tedros

GENEVA: A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday , without elaborating.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for solidarity and political commitment by all leaders to ensure equal distribution of vaccines when they become available."We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we may have a vaccine. There is hope," Tedros said in closing remarks to the WHO's Executive Board meeting that examined the global response to the pandemic.

The announcement by the European Medicines Agency could speed up the process of approving a successful vaccine in the bloc.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.So far some 168 countries have joined the COVAX facility, but neither China, the United States nor Russia are among them.

"Especially for the vaccines and other products which are in the pipeline, the most important tool is political commitment from our leaders especially in the equitable distribution of the vaccines," Tedros said. "We need each other, we need solidarity and we need to use all the energy we have to fight the virus," he said.

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