WASHINGTON.- USA announced this Wednesday an agreement between the pharmaceutical Johnson & Johnson and the program Covax to send vaccines against covid-19 to conflict zones, recognizing the failures in equitable distribution in developing countries.
This was indicated by the Secretary of State, Antony Blink, at the beginning of the ministerial summit virtual organized by Washington, although it did not offer details about the quantity or delivery times.
“We are looking forward to helping people in difficult circumstances to have protection against covid-19 as soon as possible. We know the urgency of this fight, “he said. flash in his speech.
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The head of US diplomacy remarked that “it is necessary to accelerate a equitable distribution of the vaccines in all the world“to achieve the objective set by the World Health Organization (WHO) of having 70% of the world’s population protected in September 2022.
THE IMMUNIZATION INEQUALITY
flash stressed that, while in North America and Europe more than 50% of the population is fully vaccinated, in Africa the figure is less than 10%.
“We have to close that gap,” he said.
For his part, the high representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, who participated in the meeting, thanked the initiative of USA and “supported the need to ensure a fair distribution of vaccines to achieve a sustainable recovery. “
In September, the program Covax, with which the WHO and other agencies seek to ensure the equitable distribution of the vaccines anticovid, recognized that this year it will not be able to deliver the two billion doses that it had projected and will only have 1.4 billion.
This Thursday’s ministerial meeting comes after the virtual summit of world leaders organized by the US president, Joe Biden, at the end of September in which it promised to buy 500 million doses against the covid-19 for developing countries.
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