(Dan Tri) – The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) commented on the end of the Covid-19 pandemic when nearly 50,000 people die each week.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Photo: Getty).
`One of the questions I get asked most often is: when will the pandemic end? My answer is that the pandemic will end when the world decides to end it. That’s in our hands.`
According to Mr. Tedros, `we have all the tools we need, including effective medical tools, but the world is still not using those tools well.`
`With nearly 50,000 deaths a week, the pandemic is far from over – and those are just the reported deaths,` the WHO chief added.
To date, the world has recorded more than 244 million cases of Covid-19 and more than 4.9 million deaths.
Dr. Bruce Aylward, senior leader of WHO, said on October 20 that the Covid-19 pandemic may continue until 2022 because poor countries do not receive the necessary vaccines.
Mr. Tedros said WHO has set a goal of vaccinating 40% of the world’s population by the end of this year.
`The barrier is not vaccine production, but politics and profit,` Mr. Tedros said.
According to Mr. Tedros, countries that have achieved the goal of vaccinating 40% of the population, including member countries of the Group of 20, should cede their spots on the vaccine distribution list for the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX.
The WHO Director-General called on vaccine manufacturers to prioritize and complete their contracts with COVAX and AVAT as a matter of urgency, and to be more transparent about what is going on.
Currently less than 5% of the African population has been vaccinated, while this rate in other continents is 40% or more.
People’s Vaccine, a coalition of charities, has released new figures showing that only one-seventh of the vaccines promised by pharmaceutical companies and rich countries have gone to poorer countries.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading epidemiologist, thinks that the world can begin to control the Covid-19 pandemic next spring, while the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer say that the great
