WHO warns that there will be no collective immunity despite vaccines – News

“We will not achieve any level of popular immunity or collective immunity in 2021,” the official said at a press conference, insisting on the need to maintain sanitary measures.

Soumya Swaminathan highlighted the “incredible progress” of the scientific community in developing many vaccines around the world, although he recalled that producing the doses and administering them to the whole population is a long process.

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“It takes time to produce vaccines on a large scale, we’re not just talking about millions of doses but billions», He underlined, then questioning the people who wait on the possibility of regaining normality after a year of pandemic, “Be patient.”

The WHO chief scientist also insisted that “vaccines will finally reach all countries”. “But in the meantime, we must not forget the measures (to contain Covid-19) that are working,” he said.

People infected with the coronavirus in the world were until Sunday nearly 90 million, while the pandemic has caused more than 1.92 million deaths, in a statistic of countries where Argentina remained in twelfth place.

Worldwide, 89,731,755 people have been infected with Covid-19, while 1,928,334 deaths have been caused by the disease and 49,828,773 infected have already managed to recover.

In the United States, the coronavirus has resulted in 372,522 deaths, with 22,138,995 confirmed cases to date.

For its part, India, consolidated in second place in the world ranking, has 10,450,284 infected people and 150,999 deaths, while Brazil, third, has 8,075,998 infected patients and 202,631 deaths in total.

Russia, fourth, has 3,366,715 infections and 60,963 deaths; Meanwhile, Britain, now fifth, has racked up 3,026,348 infected people and 81,000 deaths.