The UN health agency, World Health Organization (WHO) states it does not anticipate extensive immunisation against Covid-19 until mid-2021, notwithstanding growing expectations in the US, the worst-hit country, that a vaccine could be delivered within weeks.
The Geneva-based WHO also declared it would never recommend a vaccine that has not established safe and efficient, amid concerns over the rush to develop a jab for Coronavirus (Covid-19).
COVID-19 has already killed approximately 870,000 people and affected more than 26 million others worldwide as well as upended hundreds of millions of lives and wreaked havoc on the global economy.
WHO welcomed the fact that a “considerable number” of vaccine applicants had entered final stage trials, which typically require tens of thousands of people.
But “in terms of realistic timelines, we are really not expecting to see widespread vaccination until the middle of next year,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris stated.
