GENEVA: Despite the fact that several high-income nations have begun to distribute the fourth and fifth Covid vaccine doses, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus estimates that one-third of the world's population has yet to receive a single dose.
This includes approximately 83 percent of Africa's population, while several high- and middle-income nations have met the Covid immunisation target of 70 percent. Ghebreyesus stated, "This is not acceptable to me, and it should not be acceptable to anyone." "Why shouldn't the world's poor benefit from high vaccination coverage if the world's wealthy do? Is it true that some lives are more valuable than others?" He also revealed the Covid-19 Strategic Preparedness, Readiness, and Response Plan, which has been updated.
"This is our third Covid-19 strategic plan, and it might and should be our last," Ghebreyesus said, as he set out three possible scenarios for how the pandemic could play out this year. The most plausible scenario is that the virus evolves, but the severity of the disease it causes decreases over time as immunity grows as a result of vaccination and infection.
As immunity wanes, periodic surges in cases and deaths may occur, necessitating frequent boosting for vulnerable groups, he said.
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