Warning that the collection of vaccines by rich countries would slow down the pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that these countries should make mistakes in the past. avoid leaving. Dr Tedros expressed frustration at the situation among rich countries receiving vaccines when poor countries were not yet receiving appropriate doses.
“The pandemic has exposed and exploited the inequalities of our world,” he told reporters, warning that now “there is a real danger that the real tools that could stop the vaccines –– vaccines –- make those same inequalities worse. “
“Vaccine nationalism may serve short-term political goals. But ultimately it is short-sighted and self-defensive,” he said.
The WHO co-ordinates the COVAX facility, which works to obtain vaccines and ensure that doses are delivered equitably around the world.
The facility expects to start delivering doses within a few weeks, and Tedros said the goal is to have vaccinations of health workers and the elderly in all countries around the country. -in the first 100 days of 2021.
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WHO has stressed many times that the only way to advance the pandemic and ensure the world economy ensures that the priority groups in all countries receive the coronavirus vaccine.
Tedros urged the world not to repeat mistakes in the past, citing the HIV / AIDS crisis, where rich countries received life-saving medicines nearly a decade before they were priced accessible in poor countries.
He also contracted the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009, when vaccines did not reach poor countries until after the revolution.
“I don’t think that’s a good history. It’s a bad history,” he said.
The WHO leader warned “if we set up vaccines, and if we don’t share … there will be catastrophic moral failure.”
But more than that, he warned, “it will keep the disease from spreading, and … (will) slow down the global economic recovery.”
“Is that what we want? It’s our choice.”
(By entering AFP)