WHO worries about fight for new corona vaccine Call for fair framework August 25, 6:38
WHO = Secretary General of the World Health Organization Tedros has expressed concern over the global competition for the new coronavirus vaccine, and has added more frameworks for the fair distribution of vaccines to countries around the world established by WHO and others. The country called for participation.
While the US, UK, China and other countries are developing new-type coronavirus vaccines at unprecedented speeds, each country is working to secure vaccines.
About this, WHO Secretary General Tedros said at a regular press conference in Geneva, Switzerland on the 24th, "Vaccine Nationalism will only help the virus," and each country will secure a vaccine for itself. He ran and expressed concern that a global competition would occur.
He added that 172 countries have been interested in the framework for fair delivery of vaccines to countries around the world established by WHO and others, and said, "Participating in the framework will end the pandemic early, We call for more countries to participate, as it leads to a sustainable economic revival."
On the website of the "Gavi Vaccine Alliance", an international organization working on vaccination in developing countries that launched this framework together, the names of countries such as Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada are noted. , America and China are not included.
WHO has set a deadline for expressing its intention to participate at the end of this month and will continue to encourage countries to participate.