Expert: Coronavirus vaccine will not be silver bullet to end pandemic

Microbiologist Peter Piot of Belgium, who co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, says that When the Covid-19 vaccine finally comes, it will be no silver bullet to end the pandemic. - AFP

SINGAPORE, July 4 (The Straits Times/ANN): When the Covid-19 vaccine finally comes, it will be no silver bullet to end the pandemic, said world-renowned virus-hunter Peter Piot (pic).

The head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine warned that it is unlikely for the vaccine to get to billions of people in the next few months, or be 100 per cent protective, and there remain questions on whether it will confer lifelong immunity.