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  • COVID-19: School education takes a hit in MP
  • Amy Coney Barrett testifies in Supreme Court hearing
  • MP CM bows to Vijaya Raje
  • WHO expects to see COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020 at the earliest
  • Human Rights Council elections to be held in UN General Assembly Hall
  • Singapore to resume issuance of short-stay, transit visas on October 18
  • Belgium's 2 provinces impose curfews over surge in COVID-19 cases
  • Sukhbir Singh Badal strongly condemns the two incidents of sacrilege in Fatehgarh Sahib
  • Police arrests person guilty of two incidents sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji
  • Haryana SC Finance Devpt Corp provided financial assistance to 765 beneficiaries
  • Two incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib reported district Fatehgarh Sahib
  • Punjab BJP chief attacked by farmers
  • Italy set to impose new anti-COVID-19 social restrictions, no national lockdown
  • Nine more die of COVID-19 in Bihar
WorldPosted at: Oct 13 2020 1:41AM


WHO expects to see COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020 at the earliest

Washington, Oct 12 (Sputnik) The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that a vaccine against the coronavirus disease will be ready for registration by the end of 2020 or early next year at the earliest, Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO chief scientist, said on Monday.
"As you know, we have about 40 vaccine candidates now in some stage of clinical trials, and 10 of them are in the phase three trials, which are the late stage clinical trials, which will tell us about both the efficacy and the safety. So, the best we could make a guess or predict, looking at when a trial started and when it is likely to have enough data to submit to the regulators, is [at] earliest from December of 2020 into the early part of 2021," Swaminathan told reporters.
Countries have been developing dozens of vaccines since the start of the outbreak earlier this year, but none have passed the WHO-approved phase 3 trials so far. Many vaccines are expected to be registered with the WHO by the end of the year.
To date, more than 37 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 1.07 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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