The World Health Organization has warned that despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a "silver bullet" for COVID-19, and the road ahead back to normality would be long.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan have strongly encouraged all nations to rigorously enforce health measures such as mask-wearing, social distancing, handwashing and testing.
WHO spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris told RN Drive that a vaccine couldn't be the only solution countries were relying.
"There seems to be this idea that people think that you just simply wait and there'll be a vaccine and it'll all be fixed, kind of like a Hollywood script," said Dr Harris.
"Countries that think they can just buy up all the vaccine, and vaccinate their whole population will not protect their entire country, you will never get 100 per cent coverage.
If you've got infection anywhere else, its going to come back into your population as well."
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Dr Margaret Harris, WHO spokesperson based in Geneva
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