The World Health Organization launched the “Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022”. Both the UN Secretary-General and WHO Director-General have called on countries and manufacturers to make good on their commitments without further delays.
According to the health organization, this strategy was launched in a bid to bring an end to the inequality faced during this pandemic. The inequality refers to the unequal distribution of vaccines amongst people in poorer countries and those in richer countries.
The WHO describes this as bringing “an end to what has become a two-track pandemic: people in poorer countries continue to be at risk while those in richer countries with high vaccination rates enjoy much greater protection”.
“Science has played its part by delivering powerful, life-saving tools faster than for any outbreak in history.
But the concentration of those tools in the hands of a few countries and companies has led to a global catastrophe, with the rich protected while the poor remain exposed to a deadly virus. We can still achieve the targets for this year and next, but it will take a level of political commitment, action and cooperation, beyond what we have seen to date”, - said WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.