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A British scientist who is co-leading the efforts to develop a vaccine for "Covid 19" has announced that the vaccine that the world is waiting for if it proves successful will be priced so that it can be obtained as widely as possible and will be manufactured on a large scale to reduce costs and increase supply.
Reuters quoted Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, who is collaborating with AstraZeneca, a drug maker, to develop the vaccine, saying that ensuring the vaccine's wide distribution and reducing costs was key to the project from the start, adding: “This vaccine will not be too expensive.” It will be a vaccine given in one dose and will be manufactured to provide it globally.
The Hill team started early human vaccine trials last April, making it one of the few research teams to have reached this stage.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebresus, confirmed in a briefing today that the vaccine and the drug will not end the Corona pandemic if it is not distributed fairly to the countries of the world.