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The race is on to produce a vaccine against COVID-19 but it is not certain that one can be found, the head of the global vaccines alliance said Friday.<\/p>\n

Seth Berkley said the more competition the better in the scientific fightback against the new coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly 200,000 people since it emerged in December.<\/p>\n

The head of the Gavi Vaccine Alliance also said confidence in an eventual COVID-19 vaccine would be greatly boosted if political leaders were seen getting immunised, saying he was \u201cquite disturbed\u201d by highly-politicised campaigns against vaccination.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the challenges is we don\u2019t know if we can make a vaccine,\u201d Berkley said at a virtual press briefing in Geneva.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m quite optimistic, from what I know on the science \u2014 but we have no proof of concept yet.\u201d<\/p>

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While a vaccine might normally take 10 to 15 years to develop, Berkley said the first vaccines against COVID-19 might be available in 12 to 18 months \u201cif we\u2019re really lucky\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want initially the race for the vaccine. That competition is great,\u201d he said, explaining that rather than having dozens of vaccines being worked on that eventually were identical, it was better to have varied ones that acted differently.<\/p>\n

There are currently over 100, and possibly up to 150 different vaccines in various stages of development, he said.<\/p>\n

(AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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