iNCOVACC vaccine for emergency use on Tuesday. Maria Van Kerkhove the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19, while welcoming the news said, "We look forward to seeing the data to see how this could be incorporated into the response for Covid-19." Van Kerkhove says it could not yet be predicted that the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind Covid-19 disease would settle down into a seasonal pattern.
Although, Mariangela Simao, the WHO's access to vaccines chief, says both the manufacturers have not yet sought the WHO's stamp of approval for the new product while confirming other manufacturers are also working on the product.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, continuing global decline in reported Covid cases and deaths was encouraging, and it was "dangerous" to assume those trends would persist "Last week, one person died with Covid-19 every 44 seconds.
Most of those deaths are avoidable,… You might be tired of hearing me say the pandemic is not over. But I will keep saying it until it is." he added.