Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP
WHO has sounded the alarm bells on the rampaging results of the COVID-19 Delta pressure that has now seen it unfold throughout 104 nations.
Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, made this identified at a media briefing on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva on Monday.
In a speech on the well being physique’s web site, Ghebreyesus was fast to boost issues concerning the COVID-19 variant saying “Delta and different extremely transmissible variants are driving catastrophic waves of case, that are translating into excessive numbers of hospitalisations and demise.
He went additional to attract the eye of the members on the assembly to the false hope of vaccines as being a fast repair to the virus.
“Vaccines have never been the way out of this crisis on their own, but this current wave is demonstrating again just what a powerful tool they are to battle back against this virus.,” he acknowledged.
Speaking on the unfold of vaccines, the 56-year-old made clear the intentions of WHO as being to vaccinate those that have obtained no doses and safety.
“Instead of Moderna and Pfizer prioritizing the supply of vaccines as boosters to countries whose populations have relatively high coverage, we need them to go all out to channel supply to COVAX, the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team and low- and low-middle income countries, which have very low vaccine coverage,” he remarked
He referred to as on world leaders to place in collaborative efforts to cease the unfold of the brand new variant across the globe
“The world should battle together to put out this pandemic inferno everywhere. The global gap in vaccine supply is hugely uneven and inequitable.”