The Global Vaccine Summit, hosted by Britain via virtual reality, has resulted in pledges of nearly $ 9 billion to continue vaccination campaigns against diseases, at a time when the United Nations has called for any possible vaccine against the Corona virus to be available to everyone around the world.
At the conclusion of the summit, in which representatives of more than 50 countries, including 35 heads of state and prime ministers, participated, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the financial pledges of the participating countries amounted to $ 8.8 billion to be spent to continue global vaccination campaigns against measles, polio and typhoid.
Johnson, whose country is one of the countries hardest hit by the Coruna virus by about 40,000 deaths, called for a new era of international health cooperation, and expressed his hope that this summit would be the right time when the world would meet to unite humanity in the battle against disease.
The aim of the summit was to raise about $ 9 billion to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Jaffe) to vaccinate 300 million other children in the poorest countries by 2025 against diseases such as polio, diphtheria and measles.
The Jaffe Alliance represents a global health partnership between the public and private sectors committed to increasing opportunities for immunization against diseases in poor countries, and Britain is one of its largest funders, and it aims to raise two billion dollars to support efforts to produce a vaccine against Corona.
A vaccine for everyone
In a video conference, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the vaccine against the Corona virus should be a vaccine for people, thereby supporting calls from international organizations to provide possible future treatment against the virus for all and not for countries without one other.
Guterres called for finding foolproof means to continue vaccination despite the Coruna epidemic that has spread across the world, and said that when a vaccine against Corona is reached, it should be ensured that it is available to all.
He explained that the Corona outbreak had disrupted many vaccination campaigns, noting that 20 million children around the world had not received full vaccines.
For his part, US President Donald Trump said in a speech at the vaccine summit that he is ready to cooperate with international efforts to combat the Corona virus.
Trump added that eradicating the epidemic, which has so far infected more than 6.6 million people and killed about 390,000 others around the world, requires serious work, describing the virus as brutal and terrible.