It’s too late for now or even if a second wave comes this year but Greek health experts expect the world will produce a COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021, although it won’t be mandatory to get the shot here.
A Health Ministry team is examining the data of the most promising vaccines and developing a plan to negotiate quantities and prices with their producers once it’s available after a fast-track to get it done.
“We are waiting for the developments,” President of the National Organization for Medicines (EOF) Dimitrios Filippou told Kathimerini. “If everything goes as planned, and I stress if, at the beginning of 2021, we may have a vaccine for commercial use.”
He said the arrival of a sufficient number of vaccines in each country will depend on the production capacity of the companies developing them and whether they prove effective after an unprecedented rush by companies around the world.
Reportedly, a vaccine developed at the University of Oxford has a relatively easy production process although the Tarryton, New York-based Regeneron in June began a clinical trial of REGN-COV2, its investigational dual antibody cocktail for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
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