Vaccine not a panacea to haul the West out of pandemic crisis By Leng Shuemi and Hu Yuwei Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/22 22:53:40 A senior reacts as she gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at Maccabi Health Services in the Israeli coastal city of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, on Monday. Israel has ordered 14 million doses of the vaccine - covering 7 million people, as two doses are required per person for optimal protection - from Pfizer as well as US biotech firm Moderna. Photo: AFP As European countries have ramped up their lockdown measures amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases and the US broke the global record for daily new infections on Friday with more than 400,000 cases, China is moving on with vaccine research and development (R&D) under control as Chinese vaccine producer Sinovac is one step closer to vaccine approval in Brazil after being issued a good manufacturing practices (GMP) certification on Monday.