WHO Chief calls for equitable distribution of vaccines to end global health crisis

Director General-World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries across the world to share doses for an equitable distribution of vaccines to end global pandemic catastrophe and human sufferings.

DG, WHO

He pleaded countries to contribute a minimum amount of share of vaccines out of their stock to help low-income nations come out of the severe health crisis caused due to SARS-Cov-2 and its variants. Until that is done, world could never approach for a global recovery in coming years.

Access to COVID vaccines in Africa and other low/middle-income nations is critically low and sufficient amount of doses need to cover those regions faster otherwise all the efforts done till date will go in vain. 

Transmission due to newly mutated variants is getting faster as virus is consistently mutating- More transmission, More variants ; Less transmission, Less variants- Dr. Tedros asserted.

Delta is the most transmissible of all the variants identified so far, has been identified in at least 85 countries, and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations. As some countries ease public health and social measures, we are starting to see increases in transmission around the world.  

Equality and access to vaccines is a major issue across many low-or-middle income nations. 

Those developed countries who have sufficiently covered their most expected and vulnerable population could assist these countries in getting shared amount of vaccines for a speedy global recovery. 

WHO's vision to get the whole world safe is still a far achieved dream until we all come together and stand by humanity- 'No one is safe until everyone is safe'. 

"World can only be safe until everyone gets safe"

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https://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/presser/WHO-AUDIO_Emergencies_Coronavirus_Press_Conference_25JUN2021.mp3

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