British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who defeated COVID-19, has warned that a vaccine for the highly contagious disease may be over a year away and may, in fact, never be found.
In his 50-page guidance on a step-by-step easing of the lockdown measures to control the spread of the coronavirus, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson presented plans for businesses to gradually start opening with the COVID-19 secure measures of the social distancing and for the public to use good solid British common sense as the economy is unlocked.
He said that a mass vaccine or treatment may be more than a year away while highlighting the work being done in the UK by the scientists at Oxford University and Imperial College London towards this mission. Worst-case scenario, we may never find a vaccine, he said adding that our plan must countenance a situation where we are in this together for a long time even while doing all we can to avoid that outcome," he said.
While admitting that a vaccine treatment was the only “feasible long-term solution”, Boris Johnson said that the country has accelerated this with the promising vaccine development programmes and collaboration between Oxford University and pharma major AstraZeneca could help rapidly advance the manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine when it was ready.
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Johnson himself was contracted with COVID-19 on March 26 and was admitted to a hospital 10 days later. Meanwhile, he was discharged from a hospital on April 12.
-PTC News