General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhan Gebresus said that the world was in a vaccine apartheid, his words, with reference to the Paris Forum of the world, leads RIA Novosti.
Gebresus explained that 45 percent of world vaccines have rich countries that constitute only 15 percent of the world’s population. And on countries that make up almost half of the population and having significantly lower income, accounts for only 17 percent of vaccines. Gebresus called such a gap huge, calling the countries to share vaccines from coronavirus.
Earlier, the head of WHO warned that overtime work longer than 55 hours per week increases the risk of stroke by 35 percent, and death from coronary heart disease – by 17 percent, adding that no work is worth the risks to expose themselves to a stroke or heart disease.