First-generation COVID-19 vaccines to stop pandemic with high share of inoculated - WHO The WHO representative noted that issues of common access to the vaccines and their mass production are of main priority to the humankind MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. The first generation of vaccines against the novel coronavirus will stop the pandemic only with the high share of immunized population, Melita Vujnovic, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Russia, said in an interview with the Russia-24 TV channel on Wednesday. "The higher the share of the inoculated, the faster the number of the infected will decrease. There will be a high barrier to the virus and there will be progressively smaller outbreaks. So, yes, of course, there is a possibility," she said in response to a question whether the first-generation vaccines can stop the pandemic.