Pfizer: confident about vaccine efficacy against Delta variant

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) WASHINGTON, June 14 (KUNA) -- Pfizer's CEO is expressing confidence about the efficacy of his company's COVID-19 vaccine against the Delta variant, which was first discovered in India and has America's top scientists sounding the alarm."I feel quite comfortable that we cover it," Pfizer CEO and Chairman Albert Bourla told CBS News'' Jan Crawford. "We will not need a special vaccine for it. The current vaccine should cover it".In the latest figures of Covid-19, the US confirmed 34,322,599 cases, and 615,086 fatalities. (end) asj.mb MENAFN14062021000071011013ID1102274834