A vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by year-end, according to the head of the World Health Organization. Today the organisation's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raised hopes about the progress of the eagerly sought after jab. "We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we may have a vaccine," he said at the end of a two-day meeting of its Executive Board on the pandemic, said: "There is hope." Mr Ghebreyesus did not go into further details or refer to a specific vaccine effort.
At the moment nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHO-led COVAX global vaccine facility. The organisation aims to distribute 2billion doses by the end of 2021.