Poor countries can remain without vaccine against coronavirus infection due to campaigns for booster vaccination in rich states. CEO of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adan Gebresus during a briefing warned about the shortage of drugs for deliveries to poor Countries
“The situation with vaccine supplies is at least currently improving. However, the paying attention to the booster vaccination with rich countries may again cause a shortage in poor countries,” said the head of WHO.
Gebresus urged leaders of rich states and producers “to learn a lesson and work together to achieve a vaccination goal of 70 percent of residents of each country” by mid 2022.
Previously, the director of the WHO Regional Office of WHO Hans Keleva appreciated the distribution period of the Omicron strain of coronavirus in Europe. In his opinion, this version of COVID-19 will be dominant in many European countries in the coming weeks, which will push already loaded health systems closer to the edge of the abyss. “