“Global Health”: Vaccinating 70% of the world’s population against Corona needs 11 billion doses

The World Health Organization announced the launch of a strategy to achieve global immunization against the Corona virus by the middle of next 2022, with the aim of immunizing 40% of the population of each country by the end of this year and 70% by the middle of next year.

The International Organization called at a press conference this evening in Geneva, attended by Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, to close the gaps in extending vaccine doses to the Kovacs facility, which is led by the organization and works to deliver them to low and middle-income countries so that the goal can be achieved.

The Director-General of the organization stressed that the global production of vaccines amounts to about 1.5 billion doses, considering that it is a sufficient quantity from a supply perspective to achieve global immunization goals, provided that distribution is made fairly.

He said that providing the vaccine to 70 percent of the world's population requires 11 billion doses, and that what was given until the end of September was just over 6 billion doses.

Tedros urged that there be a three-step approach to vaccination that includes all older people, health workers and at-risk groups of all ages in each country first, followed by the full age group of adults in each country, and finally expanded adolescent vaccination.

He added that science provided, for the first time in history, powerful life-saving tools faster than before, but the concentration of these tools in the hands of a few countries and companies led to a global catastrophe, where protection was provided to the rich, while the poor remained vulnerable to a deadly virus.

Tedros stressed the need to ensure a level of political commitment, action and cooperation beyond what has happened so far, especially since it is possible to achieve the objectives of the strategy.

For his part, the Secretary-General of the United Nations warned in the press conference of the continued inequity in the distribution of vaccines worldwide, and said that inequality is the lesson that is taken from the pandemic, which allows the spread of virus mutants, “Without proceeding with a coordinated and equitable approach in the distribution of vaccines, the reduction of cases will not continue in any case.” country".

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