The World Health Organization (WHO) assessed that more than 100 countries do not have 40 percent population coverage by vaccinations from COVID-19, and more than half of them risk not achieving this goal set by WHO. This was announced by the general director of WHO Tedros Adan Hebresus, reports TASS.
“More than 100 countries still have not achieved a goal of 40 percent, and more than half of them, which are mainly in Africa, risk it does not reach the end of this year, mainly due to the fact that they do not have access to The vaccines in which they need, “said Gebriesus vaccination level.
Also, the head of the organization recalled that now more than 80 percent of the world’s available vaccines went to the G20 countries, while low-income states, most of which are African, received only 0.6 percent of vaccine produced. “The longer vaccine inequality will persist, the more opportunities will be the virus to spread and mutate in ways that no one can prevent or anticipate,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that WHO does not see the need to create a new vaccine from coronavirus against the background of the situation with Omicron-strain. The organization believes that vaccines must simply be finalized so that they are more effective against the new option.