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Moderna says the immunity of the vaccine against Covid-19 to last at least a year
The immunity to Moderna Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine should last at least a year, the company said at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference on Monday.
The drugmaker said he was confident the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology he was using was suitable for using a vaccine, based on the new variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in a handful of countries.
The company’s vaccine, mRNA-1273, uses synthetic mRNA to mimic the surface of the coronavirus and teach the immune system to recognize and neutralize it.
Moderna said in December it would conduct tests to confirm the vaccine’s activity against any strain.
The company said on Monday that it would deliver between 600 million doses and 1 billion doses of its vaccine in 2021, based on the prediction of vaccine-related sales of $ 11.7 billion for the year, based on pre-purchase agreements signed with governments. .
“The team feels very comfortable with the record we have now … that we are on track to deliver at least 600 million doses,” said CEO Stéphane Bancel.
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Despite vaccines, there is no Covid herd immunity in 2021: WHO
Despite the vaccination of Covid-19 in a number of countries, the World Health Organization warned on Monday that herd immunity would not be achieved this year.
AFP: Countries around the world are looking forward to vaccines that can finally return to normal in the coming months.
But WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan warned that it would take time to produce and administer enough doses to stop the spread of the virus.
“We are not going to reach any levels of population immunity or herd immunity in 2021,” she said in a virtual press release from the WHO headquarters in Geneva. pandemic.
She has made incredible progress by scientists who have unimaginably managed to develop not one, but several safe and effective vaccines against a brand new virus within one year.
But, she emphasizes, the rollout ‘takes’ time’.
“It takes time to scale the production of doses, not just in millions, but here we are talking in billions,” she pointed out, urging people to “be a little patient”.
Swaminathan stressed that ‘the vaccines will eventually come. They go to all countries. ”
“But in the meantime, we must not forget that there are measures that work,” she said.
It will have to continue to take the societal and social measures aimed at stopping the transfer for ‘at least the rest of this year’.
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Summary
Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of my coronavirus pandemic, Helen Sullivan.
As the World Health Organization warned that herd immunity would not be achieved in 20201, Moderna Inc said the immunity against those receiving the Covid-19 vaccine should last at least a year.
The drugmaker said he was confident the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology he was using was suitable for using a vaccine, based on the new variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in a handful of countries.
More on this soon. Meanwhile, here are the key developments of the past few hours:
- Portugal’s president tests positive for Covid-19. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who is running for a second term in an election on January 24, tested positive for the coronavirus, but so far showed no symptoms, his office said.
- ‘Reckless’ relaxation of the Christmas rule is accused of the serious Covid boom in Ireland. The cpainting has the highest infection rate in the world, and critics blame it on socialization during the festive season.
- Lebanon tightens Covid-19 restrictions as infections skyrocket. Lebanon has tightened its coronavirus measures by drafting a total exclusion for a period of 11 days and imposing new travel restrictions to stem an unprecedented increase in infections.
- Spain sees record weekend increase in infections. Spain reported a record rise in coronavirus infections this past weekend and the number of new cases measured over the past 14 days rose to 436 per 100,000 people on Monday, from 350 on Friday.
- Judgment unlikely from the WTO team investigating Covid origin in China. Expectations are expected to be very low that a team of World Health Organization experts investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will come to a definitive conclusion from their first trip to China, a health expert linked to the WHO said .
- U.S. lawmaker tests positive for Covid-19 after siege of Capitol. A 75-year-old U.S. lawmaker has tested positive for Covid-19 after being locked up to prevent a mob from attacking the U.S. Capitol last week, saying she believes she was exposed while hiding with maskless colleagues.
- CDC says nine million Americans have now been vaccinated. The 8,987,322 people who received the first of two shots, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are less than one-third of the total doses distributed by the government to states.
- Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo test positive for Covid-19. The animals tested positive for the coronavirus after showing symptoms of the disease, which is thought to be the first known transmission of the virus to monkeys.
- Dubai removed from UK travel list. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed on Monday that the United Arab Emirates would be removed from the list and that anyone arriving from the country on Tuesday from 4am would be subject to the new restrictions.