Global Official: Corona Pandemic Still Far from over

The Global Lead Coordinator for for Covid-19 Country-Readiness Ted Chaiban warned yesterday that the Covid-19 pandemic is still far from over, noting in this context that the World Health Organization recorded more than one million new infections in the previous 24 hours.

The United Nations News Center quoted Chaiban as saying, while speaking from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a virtual briefing before a Security Council session on equitable access to vaccines in conflict and humanitarian crises, “The next six months are crucial, despite the fact that more than 11.1 billion doses of vaccine have been administered globally and 124 Among the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization that have vaccinated more than 40 percent of their citizens, and 51 countries have reached more than 70 percent of their citizens, but this percentage does not exceed 11 percent in poor and low-income countries.

The Global official stressed the urgent need to increase the level of vaccination this year in countries that did not have this opportunity in 2021, at a time when deaths due to this disease exceeded six million cases.

Ted Chaiban warned of what he described as the risk of losing momentum due to the failure of equality in vaccination, as it still represents a threat to global health security, noting that since last January the number of countries whose citizens have received full vaccination coverage is still at or less than ten percent.

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned earlier this week that the Coronavirus pandemic is not over yet, with the emergence of new mutations of the virus at an average rate of every four months.