In declarations to the Russian news agency TASS, the official added that the search for an effective vaccine for all countries is accelerating.
The official referred to the Covax mechanism, a global collaboration to maximize the creation of production capacity for a cure for this pandemic.
Yazarevich explained that it is intended to distribute around two billion doses of the vaccine equally by the end of 2021.
According to representatives of this United Nations agency, the first vaccines against the new coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in China, will not be ready until early 2021.
Scientists around the world are currently searching for a vaccine candidate, some of whom are already in the third phase of clinical trials.
However, the infectious disease epidemiologist and technical manager of the WHO’s pandemic management area, Maria Von Kerkhove, recently mentioned that the vaccine will not be the definitive solution to end the pandemic, which is why she called for avoiding excessive expectations.
The director general of the health body, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, assured the day before that so far there is no solution and perhaps there never will be.
In his opinion, «clinical trials give us hope, but this does not necessarily mean that we get a vaccine.»
Therefore, he insisted on the necessary compliance with the protection measures to stop the outbreaks and prevent the spread of the disease.
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