A healthy youth might have to wait until 2022 for COVID-19 vaccine, says WHO

Oct. 15: If you are a healthy youth and is in the hope of receiving coronavirus vaccine as soon as it is ready for use, then you need to read this piece of information. Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation (WHO) said, “A healthy young person might have to wait for COVID-19 vaccine until 2022.”

Swaminathan added, “Infact, most people agree that once the vaccine is ready, it would start with health care workers and frontline workers followed by the elderly and so on.” Despite the global push for a COVID-19 vaccine, with dozens in clinical trials and hopes for initial inoculations this year, Swaminathan reiterated that speedy, mass shots were unlikely. He further said, “You need to vaccinate at least 70 percent of people to really break the transmission.”