SOURCE: PIXABAY
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at a ceremony at the Geneva School of Diplomacy in connection with the award of an honorary doctorate, said that an equal distribution of vaccines around the world would make it easier to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
“The bitter truth is that we would have been able to control the pandemic by now if vaccines were distributed on an equal basis,” Gebreyesus said.
According to him, the vaccine crisis indicates a “fundamental weakness” in the fight against the pandemic, indicates a “lack of global solidarity” and that countries are not sharing enough “information and data, biological samples, resources, technologies and tools”.
“States with large financial and geopolitical muscles have established control over the global supply of vaccines, while the majority of the world’s poor are forgotten, ” the WHO Director General explained.