Image Source : AP PHOTO WHO chief warns towards COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Raising questions on the equity within the distribution of the vaccines, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has mentioned that the world is on the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure”. The WHO’s assertion comes as a number of international locations have already rolled out vaccines towards coronavirus.
“I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure–and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Tedros mentioned whereas talking through the WHO’s govt board digital assembly.
Highlighting that “the promise of equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines is at serious risk”, he mentioned, “More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country. Not 25 million; not 25 thousand; just 25.”
This warning comes regardless of COVAX, a worldwide initiative, being fashioned 9 months in the past to make sure truthful and equitable entry to COVID-19 vaccines for each nation, Voice of America reported.
The WHO chief mentioned that these actions won’t assist in stopping the unfold of coronavirus however “will only prolong the pandemic”.
“Vaccine equity is not just a moral imperative, it is a strategic and economic imperative,” he added.
According to the most recent replace by the Johns Hopkins University, globally, a complete of 95,392,103 COVID-19 circumstances and a pair of,035,895 deaths have been reported to this point.
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