Finally .. “good news” from the World Health Organization about the...

Despite its previously cautious statements about the date of finding a vaccine against the Corona virus, which affected millions around the world, and began to spread in a second wave in many countries, the World Health Organization expressed its hope that the vaccine against the epidemic would see the light at the end of this year.

The Director-General of the United Nations, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Tuesday that the vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by the end of the year, without going into details.”We need vaccines to fight the pandemic, and there is hope for that. We may have a vaccine at the end of this year,” he added, during a speech he delivered at the end of the organization’s two-day meeting.

It is noteworthy that there are so far within the global COVAX initiative launched by the organization, which aims to distribute 2 billion doses of Corona vaccines by the end of 2021, nine experimental vaccines are in preparation and have reached advanced and promising stages.

On Monday, the organization announced that the number of actual infections with the emerging virus, which infected 10% of the world’s population, is more than the officially announced figures, and its director called for speeding up reform of the international institution to deal with health challenges.In a speech at the opening of an extraordinary session of the Executive Council on dealing with the Covid-19 epidemic, Ghebreyesus strongly defended the work accomplished by the organization, which US President Donald Trump accuses of incompetence in its management of the pandemic that has caused the death of more than one million people.

For his part, Director of the Emergency Department at the organization Michael Ryan announced that about 10% of the world’s population may have been infected with the virus, or 780 million people, while the officially announced figures indicate that the number of cases exceeds 35.3 million.