3 disasters caused by Corona, there is no escape from them except with the vaccine

The Director-General of the World Health Organization called for not to repeat the mistakes of the past and to abandon poor countries until rich countries complete the vaccination of their populations with anti-Covid-19 vaccines.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "If we do not share vaccines, there will be three main problems ... The first is to record a catastrophic moral failure, the second is to allow the pandemic to continue, and the third to significantly slow down the economic recovery."

"So this is a moral mistake, and it will not help stop the epidemic and will not restore the means of livelihood. Is this what we want? It is up to us to make the decision," he added, staring at the camera during a bi-weekly press conference.

A Reuters statistics showed that more than 101.74 million people were infected with the emerging coronavirus worldwide, while the total number of deaths resulting from the virus reached two million and 195,520.

And HIV infections have been recorded in more than 210 countries and regions since the first cases were discovered in China in December 2019.

The WHO Director-General cited examples from the past to give greater weight to his warning.

He recalled that some poor countries had to "wait 10 years" to obtain the necessary drugs to combat HIV (AIDS).

In the case of swine flu, poor countries got the vaccine against it, "but after the pandemic ended."

Ghebreyesus renewed the warning about nationalism regarding vaccines, stressing that "we live in a global village" and that no one will be safe unless Covid-19 is contained in all parts of the world.

The UN official’s statements come in the context of a lack of supplies of some of the most effective vaccines on the market, which angered a number of countries.

On Friday, the World Health Organization criticized the European Union’s adoption of a mechanism to monitor exports of vaccines against Covid-19 outside its region, and to prevent the export of doses intended for Europeans.