Covid-19 Vaccine
According to him, this act is stupid and senseless.
He said, “All the vaccination effort made in developed countries to vaccinate the whole of the population, one, two or three times — all that effort will fall apart. And these people will not be protected,”
“So not to have equitable distribution of vaccines is not only a question of being immoral: it is also a question of being stupid.”
Guterres stated this in a virtual press conference alongside WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, that “Vaccine inequality is aiding and abetting the COVID-19 pandemic,”
“It is allowing variants to develop and run wild, condemning the world to millions of more deaths, and prolonging an economic slowdown that could cost trillions of dollars.”
The UN Chief further stated with indignation that the hogging of vaccines by rich nations will only result in the limitation of poorer countries’ access to vaccines which could lead to the undermining of these countries’ defenses against the deadly virus.
Guterres also added that if the virus could spread in areas with few vaccinated people, there was a great chance of a variant emerging that could become resistant to vaccines.
The UN health agency said 1.5 billion vaccine doses were now being manufactured every month – with less than one week’s production needed to reach the 10 per cent target.
The World Health Organization (WHO) buttressing this said every country that had fully immunized more than 40 per cent of its population was doing too little to stop the COVID-19 crisis, as they should be ensuring doses go to nations left wide open to the virus.
The WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that WHO wanted 10 per cent of the population in every country fully jabbed by the end of September.
Tedros explained that more than 6.4 billion vaccine doses had now been administered, and almost a third of the world’s population was fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Tedros revealed that there were enough doses being produced to achieve the WHO’s next target of seeing 40 percent in every country vaccinated by the end of the year - provided they are distributed equitably.
