WHO: more than half the planet in lockdown, and a vaccine is needed to stop transmission

The WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, shares that more than half of the planet’s population is currently staying home as part of efforts to halt the virus. [1]

“We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, ten times deadlier than the 2009 flu pandemic.”

Coronavirus has so far killed 6.4 percent of people who have tested positive for it, including 12 percent of those in Britain.

Regardless of the mitigation efforts put in place, the WHO acknowledged that

 “ultimately, the development and delivery of a safe and effective vaccine will be needed to fully interrupt transmission”.

By May 2020 it is revealed that “early work on some of the vaccine candidates suggests they may not stop infection in the upper respiratory tract — and they may not stop an infected person from spreading virus by coughing or speaking.”