Vaccines can offer protection but masking and avoiding large crowds are still essential to keeping COVID-19 away.
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Vaccines can offer protection but masking and avoiding large crowds are still essential to keeping COVID-19 away.
WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on the latest work being done to help protect against the novel coronavirus.