First indications of the effectiveness of a potential vaccine against coronavirus may be available in the autumn, the head of the Gavi vaccine alliance told a Swiss newspaper, forecasting a long road from there to broad availability.

“Unfortunately, we really do not know which vaccine will work and whether there will be one at all. If we’re lucky, we’ll receive indications in autumn as to (a potential vaccine’s) effectiveness,” Gavi head Seth Berkley told NZZ am Sonntag in an interview.

“But there will still be a long way to go from there until an approved active substance becomes available in large quantities for the global population,” he said.

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