Rich countries could be back to close to normal by late 2021 if a COVID-19 vaccine is approved soon and widely distributed, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said on Tuesday. COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford University are two of the leading candidates in the race to be first to get regulatory approval in the West. The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by the end of the year. One of the volunteers who received the COVID-19 vaccine in the phase 3 trials developed by the University of Oxford together with the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. Gates added that in the United States people should be thinking about ways to reduce hesitancy about having a COVID-19 vaccine when one is ready.

Source: Daily Mail October 06, 2020 19:37 UTC