Doctor Fiona Braka, the World Health Organisation Country Representative in Nigeria, has said that accelerated effort is in place to get coronavirus vaccine ready in 12 to 18 months.
Braka made the disclosure while answering questions which border on the stages attained so far by researchers as far as production of coronavirus vaccine is concerned.
She said: “Thanks to rapid sharing of sequencing data from countries; we are able to advance production of vaccines and we do acknowledge the contributions of countries in sharing their genetics sequencing data, including Nigeria. And so, the first vaccine trials started as early as 60 days just after the genetic sequencing information was shared by China.”
According to her, there is currently around 89 vaccine products and the numbers keep increasing due to the fact that there is an ongoing accelerated effort globally to discover vaccine for the virus.
She stated: “It takes years to develop a vaccine but with the acceleration of this effort we are hopeful that with an expedited process, we are probably looking at 12 to 18 months before the first product will be available.”
