The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine
will be ready in spring 2021, European Medicines Agency
executive director Guido Rasi told Sky TG24 Friday.
"We think and hope that the first major doses for at-risk
populations may arrive in the spring of 2021 with a start to
major vaccinations," Rasi said.
He said many of the people who want to be vaccinated "may be
(vaccinated) by summer 2021".
Rasi said the pandemic would start diminishing a year after the
administration of the vaccine.
"An assessment of its efficacy will be made after six months,"
he said.
Rasi reiterated that "the year of the vaccine will be 2021 and
let's hope it will be the year of the vaccines, more than one".
He added that the use of monoclonal antibodies such as those
used on US President Donald Trump was also a possibility.
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