The World Health Organization’s chief has on Wednesday, foretold when Covid-19 will end in 2022.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, maintained that the emphasis must remain getting vaccines to vulnerable people everywhere, rather than delivering additional doses to those who have previously been vaccinated.
No country will be able to boost its way out of the pandemic, hetold reporters.
The COVID-19 pandemic must end by 2022, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking Wednesday during the organization’s final coronavirus briefing of the year.
Tedros predicted that the pandemic would end next year because, after two years, we know the virus extremely well and we have all the means to battle it.
The United Nations has long denounced the significant disparities in access to Covid vaccinations.
Allowing Covid to grow unchecked in some areas, it claims, greatly raises the likelihood of other, more hazardous varieties arising.
Blanket booster programs, rather than ending the pandemic, are likely to extend it by redirecting supply to countries with already high levels of vaccination coverage, allowing the virus more opportunity to spread and evolve,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
Tedros urged in vain months ago for a halt on booster doses to vaccinated, healthy people until at least 40% of people in all countries had had a first jab.
He noted on Wednesday that, while enough vaccines were distributed internationally this year to meet that aim, global supply disruptions meant that just half of the world’s countries had done so.
According to UN estimates, approximately 67 percent of people in high-income nations have received at least one vaccine dosage, whereas only 10 percent of those in low-income countries have received at least one vaccine dose.
It’s tough to explain how, a year after the initial immunizations were provided, three out of every four health workers in Africa are unvaccinated,” Tedros stated.
– Omicron in 106 countries – His remarks came as the Omicron variant’s rapid spread around the world since its discovery in South Africa last month dashed optimism that the pandemic’s worst was gone.
