"We know we need to get to herd immunity and we need that in a majority of countries, so we are not going to see that in 2021," Fisher said. "There might be some countries that might achieve it but even then that will not create 'normal' especially in terms of border controls." Herd immunity refers to a situation where enough people in a population have immunity to an infection to be able to effectively stop that disease from spreading. Pakistan, a country of about 220 million people, has so far ordered 1.2 million vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm. We are already in the middle of COVID without any vaccine and once the vaccine comes, it will only makes this better," Baqir told Reuters Next.

Source: bd News24 January 11, 2021 09:22 UTC