Head of the laboratories that made the first vaccine: Corona will continue for the next 10 years, but the world will coexist!

Ugur Sahin, head of Piontech laboratories that created the first vaccine against Covid-19 based on messenger RNA technology, said that the world is "increasingly" prepared to confront the new mutants of the virus, warning at the same time that it will have to live with the epidemic for years.

“Other mutations will arrive,” Shaheen said in an interview with Agence France-Presse, because “the virus will continue to mutate, and there are other mutations that are spreading from now on in the world.”

But he added, "Every day we learn more and are increasingly prepared," stressing, "We have to accept that we will live with the virus in the next ten years."

Piontech, with the giant American group Pfizer, has developed one of the two messenger RNA vaccines currently approved in the world, and German laboratories are working on preparing a new version that is adapted to combat the mutant Omicron.

After the first waves of infection, the delta and omicron mutant caused new epidemic mutations in a number of countries.

“We are reaching a point where society is increasingly understanding how to confront” the virus, said Shaheen, a co-founder of Biontech.

He indicated that the results of the ongoing clinical trial of the modified vaccine against Omicron will be available “actually” in March.

He explained to the German newspaper Bild that the drug may be delivered in April or May if the need arises, while several countries intend to ease the measures taken to combat the virus or have lifted them.

Germany announced that it would lift a "significant portion" of the restrictions currently in place by March 20.

Several European countries, including Britain and France, lifted some restrictions related to Covid-19, amid the continuing health crisis.

The Netherlands announced on Tuesday, Austria and Switzerland on Wednesday a timetable for the gradual return of the situation to normal.

In recent weeks, Norway and Denmark lifted most of the measures that had been imposed.

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