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WHO “Provides 500 million doses of vaccine in the first quarter of next year” … US approval is also forthcoming

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While approvals for the COVID-19 vaccine are being made in each country, supply plans are being made one after the other.

After the UK, Bahrain has approved the Pfizer vaccine and the US will do so soon.

The World Health Organization, WHO, has decided to provide 500 million doses of the vaccine in the first quarter of next year.

Journalist Jeong Seon-mi.

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The World Health Organization, WHO, has announced that it will provide 500 million doses of the Corona 19 vaccine to the world in the first quarter of next year.

WHO’s goal is to secure at least 2 billion doses by the end of next year.

The WHO just pointed out that vaccine development does not mean the end of the COVID-19 epidemic and that we shouldn’t settle down.

“We are all inspired by advances in vaccine development, and we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. But the WHO is concerned that awareness that the COVID-19 pandemic is over is spreading.”

Every country is also moving fast.

Bahrain, the Islamic state, has approved Pfizer’s vaccine for the second time after the UK and US have announced it will be approved in the third week of this month.

The plan is to approve it within a week after going through the US Food and Drug Administration’s FDA advisory board on the 10th.

“We plan to get FDA approval during the third week of December (the vaccine). After that, we will be able to distribute the vaccine within 24 hours and then we will be able to vaccinate people within 24 hours.”

Germany said it plans to get the COVID-19 vaccine for free and said it will start vaccinating it simultaneously with 27 EU member states.

This is Yonhap News TV, Jeong Seon-mi. ([email protected])

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