(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 23 - The coronavirus pandemic will end in a year: this is the forecast by Stéphane Bancel, managing director of Moderna, the biotechnology company producing the Covid vaccine of the same name.
Interviewed by the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Bancel said that "by the middle of next year" there should be sufficient doses of vaccines so that the entire world population can be immunized.
"Soon we should also be able to vaccinate children from five to eleven years old and, at a later stage, those from six months upwards - he continued -. Those who do not vaccinate will naturally immunize because the Delta variant is so contagious. in a situation similar to that of the flu: you can get vaccinated and have a good winter, or you don't and you risk getting sick and maybe even ending up in hospital ".
Then answering the question whether this means that it will return to normal in the second half of 2022, Bancel said: "To date, in a year, I presume".
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