Soumya Swaminathan | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:05:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Soumya Swaminathan | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 COVID-19: Vaccine may be ready by mid-2021— WHO https://www.insideojodu.com/covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-by-mid-2021-who/ https://www.insideojodu.com/covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-by-mid-2021-who/#respond Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:05:27 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=14844 The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said coronavirus vaccination could begin globally by mid-2021.…

The post COVID-19: Vaccine may be ready by mid-2021— WHO first appeared on InsideOjodu.]]> The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said coronavirus vaccination could begin globally by mid-2021.

WHO’s Chief Scientist, Soumya Swaminathan revealed this in an interview with DPA on Sunday.

According to him, COVID-19 vaccination was currently undergoing research processes and could be ready by the middle of next year.

“We have now over 20 candidates in clinical studies.

“So we are hopeful that a couple of them will work. It would be very unlucky if all of them fail.

“So if we are very practical, then we are looking at the middle of 2021 when we will have a vaccine that can be widely deployed.

“Of course, it’s impossible to predict,” she said.

The WHO official stated that the global race to develop a vaccine had been “the fastest timeline we have ever seen.”

Reca that COVID-19 was first discovered in Wuhan Province of China and has now spread throughout the globe.

Since its first outbreak, the virus has killed over 600, 000 people and infected over 14 million across the world.

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