The World Health Organization describes the unfairly distribution of Corona vaccine as an ethical and catastrophic failure

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said yesterday, Monday, during the opening of the annual meeting of the Executive Board of the Organization, that “the recent emergence of rapidly spreading variants in the virus, makes the issue of rapid and equitable introduction of vaccines very important.”

Ghebreyesus warned that the Corona virus vaccines were not distributed fairly in the countries of the world, which he described as a “grave danger” and represented a “moral and catastrophic failure,” and many people and livelihoods will pay the price for this failure in the poorest countries around the world, as he put it.

He also urged countries and manufacturers to share anti-virus doses more equitably around the world.

Up to date, 39 million doses of several different vaccines have been given in at least 49 high-income countries, while only 25 doses have been given in one of the low-income countries, according to his statement.

Ghebreyesus stressed that the development and approval of safe vaccines for the Coronavirus, less than a year after the virus appeared in China, in late 2019, was “an amazing achievement and a much-needed source of hope”.However, “it is not right to vaccinate younger, healthier adults in rich countries, before health workers and the elderly in poor countries, priority should be given to those most at risk of serious illness and death in all countries, ”he said.

The World Health Organization has placed Syria among the list of 92 countries in the category of low-income countries, which will support them to receive the vaccine as soon as it is approved.

Source: Agencies