Gutters: To double the global production capacity of vaccines

Double COVID-19 vaccine production worldwide to provide fairer dosing in developing countries, which is affected by new waves of infections from the new coronavirus, addressed yesterday the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.

Many countries are facing huge shortages of vaccine doses, especially India, which is exacerbating the deadly second wave of the pandemic, with hospitals and morgues full of suffocators and families desperately trying to provide ever-diminishing drugs and oxygen.

The same time, The European Union is setting up a stockpile of vaccine doses.

“It is completely unacceptable to live in a world where developed countries can vaccinate most of their populations while many developing countries do not have access to a single dose,” said Guterres, speaking after the meeting. with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.

The head of the UN referred to the dangers posed by the strains of SARS-CoV-2, stressing that the virus is spreading “like a fire” in various parts of the developing world.

«ΕIt is in everyone’s interest for everyone to be vaccinated everywhere. We believe that we need two things: to double the global production capacity of vaccines and at the same time to have a fairer distribution of vaccines“, Stressed Mr. Guterres.

The new coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of at least 3.31 million people internationally since the end of December 2019, while tens of millions more have been infected, according to official data gathered by the French Agency until yesterday at 10:00 . This account is undoubtedly undervalued. For the World Health Organization, which characterizes the “21st century Chernobyl” pandemic, this global health crisis “could well have been avoided.”

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