Biden reminds vaccine 'still months away' after Moderna's news, stresses COVID-19 norms

Following latest anuncement about potential COVID-19 vaccine with 94.5 percent efficacy, US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, vember 16 asserted that country is still 'months away' from COVID-19 vaccine. potential vaccine development comes at time when US continues to be worst affected country by pandemic with over 11 million cases of COVID-19.

Taking to Twitter US President-elect asked Americans to continue practicing social-distancing and mask-wearing to get virus under control.

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Moderna's COVID Vaccine Reports 94.5% Efficacy

Biden's remarks came after US biotech company Moderna on Monday anunced a potential COVID-19 vaccine. As anunced, vaccine has shown to be 94.5 percent efficient at guarding people against coronavirus infection, according to interim results from late-st clinical trials.

"Once again, I congratulate brilliant women and men who produced this breakthrough and have brought us one step closer to beating this virus. I am also thankful for frontline workers who are still confronting virus around clock," Stephane Bancel, Moderna's CEO said.

biotechlogy company furr has informed that it intends to submit vaccine candidate for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with United States' Food & Drug ministration (FDA). analysis released by Moderna which has reported 94.5% efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine was based on results of more than 30,000 participants in US. analysis report of Moderna vaccine revealed that "preliminary analysis suggests a broly consistent safety and efficacy profile across all evaluated subgroups."

biotechlogical firm also plans to submit applications for authorizations to global regulatory ncies. By end of 2020, Moderna has projected to have approximately 20 million doses of mRNA-1273 (COVID Vaccine) rey to ship in US.  company has also informed that it remains on track to manufacture 500 million to 1 billion doses globally in 2021. statement by Moderna followed by anuncements me by US giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech who last week h said ir vaccine, was found to be more than 90 percent effective.

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(With ANI inputs; Im -AP)