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Covid-19: 115 thousand health workers have died in the pandemic

“For nearly 18 months, health workers around the world have remained between life and death. Many have become infected and we estimate that at least 115,000 health and care workers have paid the highest price in the service of others ». The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells of a war, as the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres defined it, fought against Covid-19.

Globally, there is often a lack of equipment, protections, but also training and fair compensation.

«Health and social workers do heroic things but they are not super heroes. They are human like the rest of us. They sweat and swear, laugh and cry, fear and hope. Many feel frustrated, helpless and unprotected by the lack of access to personal protective equipment and vaccines and tools to save lives, ”said the director general.

The question of vaccines, monopolized by a small group of countries, is open for the WHO. “Over 75% of all vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries and the ongoing vaccine crisis is a scandalous iniquity that is perpetuating the Covid-19 pandemic,” he added. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The global goal of the vaccination campaign is to immunize at least 30% of the world’s population by the end of the year. Worldwide, the situation is fragile. “No country should assume that it is out of harm’s way, regardless of its vaccination rate. The pandemic is not over and it will not end until the contagion is under control in every country “.

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