Guterres appeals for USD 8 billion to equitably vaccinate 40% of global population in 2021
Guterres appeals for USD 8 billion to equitably vaccinate 40% of global population in 2021
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for USD 8 billion to help equitably vaccinate 40 percent of people in all countries by the end of the year, as the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a plan that aims to inoculate 70 percent of the world by mid-2022.

The WHO plan urges countries with high vaccine coverage to permit expected deliveries of additional doses to first go to the COVAX global sharing program and the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust for distribution to where they are more urgently needed. It also wants the richer nations to fulfill and accelerate vaccine dose-sharing and donation commitments to COVAX, and make new pledges.

 "Today, the WHO is launching the Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022," Xinhua news agency quoted WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as saying at a press briefing here on Thursday. "The strategy outlines the road we must all take together to achieve our targets of vaccinating 40 per cent of the population of every country by the end of this year, and 70 percent by the middle of next year."

According to Tedros, achieving these targets will require at least 11 billion vaccine doses, which is an allocation problem instead of a supply problem. "With global vaccine production now at nearly 1.5 billion doses per month, there is enough supply to achieve our targets, provided they are distributed equitably," he said. According to the WHO's records, more than 6.4 billion vaccine doses have now been administered globally. and almost one-third of the world's population is fully vaccinated against the virus.

 

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