Geneva: A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday, NDTV reported quoting Reuters.
Addressing the end of a two-day meeting of its Executive Board on the pandemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we may have a vaccine. There is hope.”
Nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHO-led COVAX global vaccine facility that aims to distribute 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, the report added.
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