New Delhi: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world that failure to vaccinate everyone against COVID-19 would lead to new forms of the coronavirus. Addressing the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF), Guterres stressed the need to accelerate vaccination campaigns around the world and help provide jabs to countries that do not have vaccines against the deadly infectious virus.
Calling upon us to stand together to make 2022 a true moment of recovery, he said, “The last two years have demonstrated a simple yet brutal truth, if we leave anyone behind, we leave everyone behind. give.”
The UN chief cautioned that future forms of the virus will bring daily life and economies to a grinding halt.
Guterres urged the international community to deal with the coronavirus situation with equality and fairness. He slammed rich countries over COVID vaccination, saying, “Shameful, vaccination rates in developed countries are seven times higher than in African countries.”
“If we fail to vaccinate every person, we give rise to new forms that spread across borders and bring daily life and economies to a standstill,” the UN chief lamented.
Guterres also expressed concern that the World is ‘nowhere near the goals’ set by the World Health Organization (WHO), which called for immunization of 40 percent of the Earth’s population by the end of 2021 and 70 percent by the middle of 2022. Was.
The UN chief urged pharmaceutical companies around the world to “stand in solidarity with developing countries by sharing licenses, information and technology so that we can all find a way out of this pandemic.”
The United Nations-backed COVAX was launched by the WHO in April 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic and to work for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
“Covax’s ambitions have been compromised by hoarding/stocking in wealthy countries, devastating outbreaks that closed borders and supplies, and the need for pharmaceutical companies to share licenses, technology and information,” the agency said in a January 16 statement. Shortage means that manufacturing capacity went untapped.”
first published:Jan. 18, 2022, 9:02 a.m.
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