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The World Well being Group is holding a briefing Friday on the coronavirus pandemic as international locations throughout the globe put together distribution networks for a forthcoming vaccine.
Creating and approving a Covid-19 vaccine is barely step one towards suppressing the pandemic. It is like arriving at base camp on Mount Everest, Dr. Mike Ryan, govt director of the WHO’s well being emergencies program, stated throughout a livestreamed Q&A session from the company’s Geneva headquarters on Wednesday.
“We nonetheless must climb the mountain,” he stated. “It is an incredible achievement, however we nonetheless must get there.”
The U.Ok., which was the primary nation to approve Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday for widespread use, is gearing as much as distribute the doses as early as subsequent week. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned that administering the vaccine posed “immense logistical challenges.”
The coronavirus has contaminated greater than 65.three million folks throughout the globe and has killed at the very least 1.5 million folks, in accordance with information collected by Johns Hopkins College.
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— CNBC’s Holly Ellyatt contributed to this report.