World needs cheaper way to vaccinate against Covid, former UK vaccine chief says

LONDON

: The former head of

Britain

's vaccine task force said on Tuesday that the vaccines against Covid-19 would need to become cheaper to administer - whether with patches, pills or sprays - to ensure countries do not have to spend so much.


"We can't be in a position where we have to go through this monumental logistics challenge of actually getting vaccines into arms," Kate Bingham, former chair of the UK

Vaccine Taskforce

, told a parliamentary committee.

"So the other area that I think we must be pushing forward is: how do we improve the format of these vaccines so that they are much easier and more cheap to deploy whether that is patches, pills or sprays", he said.