IMF s top economist says Covid vaccines are the main weapon to achieve a faster economic recovery CNBC 6 hrs ago Silvia Amaro
Whereas high income nations have purchased more than 4.6 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines, low income countries have bought 670 million doses.
And while many western economies hope to vaccinate the vast majority of their populations in the coming months, some countries might not be able to achieve that before 2024. © Provided by CNBC A person receives a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus disease vaccine at the Cacovid isolation centre, Mainland, Infectious disease hospital, Yaba, in Lagos, Nigeria.
LONDON With fears over vaccine nationalism steadily becoming a reality in 2021, experts have highlighted to CNBC why it s in everybody s interests to make sure adequately supplied inoculation programs are rolled out across the globe.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Researchers hatching a low-cost vaccine
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The vaccine, named NDV-HXP-S, uses a new “molecular design” that could “create more potent antibodies than the current generation of vaccines”, as well as being “far easier to make”, The New York Times (NYT) reports.
Unlike existing vaccines, NDV-HXP-S can be “mass-produced in chicken eggs”, the paper adds, mimicking the method that is used to “produce billions of influenza vaccines every year in factories around the world”.
It is also hoped that the new vaccine will solve “distribution, manufacturing and cost” hurdles that have left “lower-income countries reliant on wealthier countries’ assistance in getting vaccines to international partners”, Complex magazine adds.
Researchers are hatching a new low-cost COVID-19 vaccine in chicken eggs
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