The news that BioNTech and Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective in clinical trials has sparked new hope that vaccinations will provide a way out of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The good message for mankind is that we now understand that Covid-19 can be prevented by a vaccine,” Ugur Sahin, BioNTech’s chief executive, said after the announcement.
The phase 3 trial still has to be completed and the data submitted to regulators for approval, but the initial results for the shot, which uses groundbreaking mRNA technology, were a significant milestone in the hunt of a vaccine.
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