WHO head announced the victory of new strains of coronavirus in the race with vaccines
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The accumulation of vaccines by individual countries is the main obstacle to defeating the pandemic, the head of WHO said.
New, highly infectious variants of coronavirus infection are winning the competition with vaccines due to the lack of equality in the world in the distribution of drugs. About this on Wednesday, July 7, stated World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus at a briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
“New options are currently winning the race against vaccines due to inequitable production and distribution of drugs,” Gebreyesus said.
According to the head of WHO, the sharp increase in the incidence in many countries is directly related to inequality in the distribution of vaccines and the constantly mutating virus.
“Vaccine nationalism, the lion’s share of which occurs in a handful of countries, is a morally unjustified and ineffective public health strategy against the virus. Some countries with high vaccinated populations are abandoning anti-epidemic measures and relaxing measures as if the pandemic is over,” the director of the organization said.
The only way out of this situation, the head of WHO called the fair distribution of personal protective equipment, tests, drugs and vaccines.
He also noted that this threatens the recovery of the world economy from the crisis caused by the pandemic.
Recall that the World Health Organization called on the countries delay vaccination against juvenile coronavirus.
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