Why the WHO is warning that coronavirus pandemic won’t end with a vaccine

Top official says localised lockdown measures are key to tackling Covid

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Top official says localised lockdown measures are key to tackling Covid
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Widespread hopes that a coronavirus vaccine will end the global pandemic are unrealistic, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned.

Hans Kluge, the UN health agency’s regional director for Europe, told Bloomberg that while there has been an “unprecedented coordinated effort globally” to create a working vaccination against Covid-19, the drug is “not the issue”.

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