WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization warned that vaccines were no magic bullet for the coronavirus crisis, as Russia started vaccinating its high-risk workers Saturday and other countries geared up for similar programmes.
Health officials in Moscow said they had opened 70 coronavirus vaccine centres in the Russian capital that would initially offer jabs for health, education and social workers. Britain on Wednesday became the first Western country to approve an inoculation, from a Pfizer-BioNTech, for general use, piling pressure on other countries to swiftly follow suit.Belgium, France and Spain have said jabs will begin in January for the most vulnerable.
And US logistics giant UPS is producing 1,100 pounds of dry ice an hour in its depots and has developed portable freezers capable of storing the vaccines at temperatures down to -112 Fahrenheit.Standing in the way of success are growing signs of vaccine scepticism, with misinformation and mistrust colouring public acceptance of inoculation.
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