European leaders are blunt: Vaccines won’t come soon enough

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In separate, stark warnings, two major European leaders have bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to adapt to live with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be saved by the development of a vaccine, AP reports.

The comments by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came as nations around the world are struggling with the increasing need to reactivate economies blindsided by the pandemic.

“I said we would throw everything we could at finding a vaccine,” Johnson wrote in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. “There remains a very long way to go, and I must be frank that a vaccine might not come to fruition.”

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In this photo taken on May 16, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte holds a press conference in Rome. — AP
In this photo taken on May 16, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte holds a press conference in Rome. — AP

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