Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder, also raised hopes the jab could halve transmission of the virus, resulting in a "dramatic reduction in cases", - BBC reports.
According to BBC, last week, BioNTech and co-developers Pfizer said preliminary analysis showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19. About 43,000 people took part in tests.
The impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter.
“Summer will help us because the infection rate will go down in the summer and what is absolutely essential is that we get a high vaccination rate until or before autumn/winter next year”, Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder.
According to Sahin, it was essential that all immunisation programmes were completed before next autumn.
The vaccine has given a boost of confidence that an end to the pandemic is close, with the leading scientist behind it hopeful life could return to normal by next winter.
