Antonio Guterres hopes one will be available before end of the year. FMTNews
Guterres also praises the efforts of several African govts in mitigating the pandemic.
“A safe and effective vaccine may be the only tool that can return the world to a sense of ‘normalcy,’ saving millions of lives and countless trillions of dollars,” he added during a video conference with the 50 or so African countries that are members of the United Nations. “We need an ambitious effort to ensure that international stakeholders operate through a harmonised, integrated and leveraged approach to maximise the speed and scale needed for the universal deployment of such a vaccine by the end of 2020,” he insisted.
Through the World Health Organization, the United Nations has been able to equip 47 African countries with Covid-19 tests, he said.
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