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Over 1 million deaths due to coronavirus in 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since the start of the year, the World Health Organization said today, urging governments to step up vaccination programs as a third of the world’s population has not been vaccinated. yet to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus.

“We have crossed the tragic mark of 1 million deaths due to Covid-19 since the beginning of the year,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference

Tedros asked the governments of all countries to intensify their efforts to vaccinate all health workers, the elderly and other vulnerable groups, to reach 70% of the population.

In January, WHO, Unicef ​​and other partner organizations formed the Covid Vaccine Delivery Alliance (CoVDP), with the aim of facilitating the distribution of doses in 34 countries where vaccination coverage was less than 10%. All but six of these countries were in Africa. Today, only ten countries still have vaccination coverage below 10%. “Nevertheless, much still needs to be done,” Tedros stressed.

According to the WHO director-general, two-thirds of health workers and three-quarters of the elderly in poor countries have not yet been vaccinated.

Based on the latest WHO statistics, the Covid-19 pandemic has been responsible for 6.45 million deaths worldwide since the first cases were identified in late 2019 in Wuhan, China.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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