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Covid vaccine hopes: Normality will take time, say experts

The disclosure by Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech that a vaccine they are developing has been found to be more than 90 percent effective-- coupled with the weekend's announcement by AstraZeneca that they were likely to get 100 million doses ready by December for a vaccination drive across India--has sparked cheers across the world

No short cuts

The battle against polio, which was joined in 1988 with the WHO, UNICEF and Rotary coming together, has several lessons to offer. At that time, there were as many as 350,000 cases worldwide