(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 11 - Despite vaccines, immunity from Covid will not be achieved in 2021. This is the WHO forecast, which emerged during the usual briefing on the pandemic.
Dr Soumya Swaminathan then urged the maintenance of social distancing and masks. At the same time, the director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for "a collective commitment to ensure that vaccinations for health workers and high-risk subjects are underway in all countries within the next 100 days".
While underlining the "incredible progress" made by scientists, who have developed several safe and effective vaccines against a new virus in less than a year, "it will take time" to have important results. (HANDLE).