WHO head doubtful vaccines can end Covid-19 pandemic

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Copenhagen – With new variants dashing hopes of achieving herd community, the vaccines' ability to end the Covid-19 pandemic is doubtful, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe Regional Director Dr Hans Kluge. AFP COVID19 Europe

Copenhagen – With new variants dashing hopes of achieving herd community, the vaccines’ ability to end the Covid-19 pandemic is doubtful, according to the World Health Organization Europe Regional Director Dr Hans Kluge.

Dr Kluge noted earlier in May that the “pandemic will be over once we reach 70 per cent minimum coverage in vaccination.”

 

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