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Mainz (dpa) - According to Biontech boss Ugur Sahin, the corona virus will accompany people for the next ten years.
"We will have to get used to the fact that there are always infections and small outbreaks," he said on Tuesday.
When answering the question of when life will be normal again, Sahin said a new definition of what is "normal" is needed.
"Normal in the sense that shutdowns are no longer necessary, businesses can work normally, that we can reduce the number of hospital admissions and deaths, that could happen through vaccinations by the end of summer".
In order to be successful against the corona pandemic, not only the Biontech vaccine is needed, but also preparations from other manufacturers. All of those doses would help ensure enough vaccine was available so that 60, 70, or maybe 80 percent of the population could be vaccinated before fall next year, Sahin said. “That is important because this winter we will not have any effect of the vaccinations on the number of infections. But we have to have an effect to ensure that next winter we have a quasi-normal, a new normal. "