During his participation in the second day of the "World Government Summit Dialogues"

The Senegalese President: Strengthening global solidarity achieves rapid recovery from Corona

Part of a discussion session entitled "Will the vaccine be available to all the world's population in 2021?"

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Senegalese President Macky Sall affirmed that strengthening global solidarity and solidarity in the face of the global health crisis is a key factor in supporting governments' efforts to achieve a rapid recovery and curb the effects of the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, on the economic, social and health levels, by the end of 2021. .

"We hope that all countries will get the necessary support, including postponing international debts, and enabling us to rebuild the economy and accelerate the pace of recovery," he added during his participation in a dialogue session within the work of the second day of the "World Government Summit."

He participated in the session entitled "Will the vaccine be available to all the world's population in 2021?"

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman and CEO of DP World Group, Executive Director of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) Henrietta Hulsman Faure, and the Special Envoy of the World Health Organization on "Covid-19" Dr. David Nabarro, and moderated by John Defterios, the media in Network «CNN», stressing the importance of developing logistics services and producing vaccines on a larger scale.

Sall said: “While 525,000 people will receive the vaccine in Senegal through the (Kovacs) initiative run by (UNICEF) and led by the World Health Organization with the aim of accelerating the development and manufacture of (Covid-19) vaccines, and ensuring their equitable access to every country in the world, there are eight million. A person needs a vaccine, which is the urgent challenge we face to reach our targets. ”

He explained that his country has so far received 124,000 doses, and 65,000 people have received the vaccination since mid-February, while Senegal plans to vaccinate 3% of frontline workers to confront the pandemic during this year, and up to 60% of its population in cooperation with the African Union by the end of the program.

He praised the G20 initiative to postpone the payment of debts, appreciating the global efforts in support of the "Kovacs" initiative, which can be expanded by enabling African countries to produce vaccines in large quantities that contribute to supporting governments, exchanging knowledge, and saving people, especially since the continent produces vaccines against fever. Al-Safraa since the seventies of the last century and has sufficient experience to promote the health sector in the world.

For his part, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem stressed that the world can eradicate the pandemic and recover from its effects with the availability of the necessary number of vaccines, but the distribution of these huge quantities is the biggest challenge the world faces, since World War II, pointing to the importance of strengthening cooperation and global partnerships in support of the efforts The fair distribution of the vaccine by facilitating logistical services, and all countries, including the African Union countries, obtain a high percentage of them to ensure the immunity of their people.

He pointed out that the global economy is facing various challenges, and it is imperative to intensify global efforts to help the less fortunate by adopting a number of initiatives that include delaying debt restructuring, providing economic aid and facilitating vaccine production on a larger scale.

In a related context, Henrietta Fore said: “The UAE has supported the Kovacs initiative through actual distribution, as 2,500 refrigerators were provided in Ghana last week to store the vaccine and ensure its safety until the population is vaccinated. However, we need greater initiatives and participation as a single world that guarantees fair distribution. "To various countries and bypassing the goal of providing two billion doses of vaccines annually, thus contributing to the vaccination of the majority of the population by the end of the year, instead of postponing it until next year."

Fur stressed that the next period, from six months to a year, will be crucial and will determine the effectiveness of the global response in overcoming the global health crisis, noting that the world has a real opportunity to work within a unified force to save peoples and help nations through funding and enhancing their ability to manufacture and distribute the vaccine on a large scale. Wider.

David Nabarro stressed that the world will reach the stage of safety when all peoples receive the vaccine and the ingredients that support rapid economic recovery, which require cooperation in strengthening and coordinating the efforts of the Vaccine Alliance to ensure the achievement of the goals during the next six months.

Nabarro called on the countries of the world to enhance the utilization of influential global entities, such as the Group of Seven industrialized countries, the Group of Twenty, the Security Council, and the African Union to stimulate the global response and provide effective logistical services, by allocating 5% of the current vaccine imports in developed countries, for the benefit of developing countries. Similar to global initiatives in controlling diseases over the past years, including smallpox, polio, Ebola, and severe pneumonia, to eradicate the emerging corona virus.

He said, "We cannot recover from the effects of the pandemic by working alone, as the progress of the world depends on consolidating the principles of justice and equality, and the countries of the world meet as a unified entity to draw the features of the global response, to translate the goals of the World Summit of Governments towards building a better future."

Sultan Bin Sulayem:

"Eliminating the pandemic requires strengthening cooperation and meaningful partnerships between the world's governments."

Henrietta Fore:

"The world has a real opportunity to work within a unified force that will accelerate the overall recovery."

David Nabarro:

"The meeting of the countries of the world to draw the features of the health response translates the goals of the summit to build a better future."

Macky Sall: Senegal plans to vaccinate 3% of frontline workers to cope with the pandemic this year.

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