Covid virus will stay with us for next 10 years: BioNTech CEO
London: As the world grapples with the pandemic amid the origin of newer and potentially lethal strains, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin has said that the deadly virus is going to stay with us for the next decade at least.
In a virtual press conference this week, Sahin spoke about the potential virus deadline when asked when life could return to normal.
"We need a new definition of normal. The virus will stay with us for the next 10 years," he told media persons.
BioNTech's vaccine, developed with the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, has been authorised for use in more than 45 countries, including Britain and the US.
Sahin also said that the vaccine can be adjusted for the new UK variant in about six weeks.
"In principle, the beauty of the messenger technology is that we can directly start to engineer a vaccine which completely mimics this new mutation - we could be able to provide a new vaccine technically within six weeks," he was quoted as saying in media reports.
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