With Covid-19 wreaking havoc around the world, many people wonder: when will this pandemic end? In response, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “The pandemic is a test and the world is failing.”
Addressing the Meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Tokyo, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO).“It is a question that I am asked a lot and that people all over the world are asking: When will this pandemic end? In fact, the Covid-19 pandemic has asked us a lot of questions: about ourselves; and about our world. “
“Anyone who thinks the pandemic is over because it is over in the area they live in lives in a fool’s paradise,” Ghebreyesus said.
DO NOT SHOWER PANDEMIC FLAMES
Tedros highlighted the seriousness of the Covid-19 situation around the world and said: “More than 4 million people have died and more continue to die. This year the number of deaths is more than twice as high as last year. “
“In the time it takes me to make these remarks, Covid-19 will kill more than 100 people. And by the time the Olympic flame goes out on August 8, more than 100,000 more people will perish,” said Ghebreyesus .
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The WHO director general continued to speak about the likely third of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Millions of survivors continue to suffer from the long-term health consequences of Covid-19 that we are still learning from. The people of the world are sick and tired … And yet, 19 months after the pandemic and seven months since then “The first vaccines were approved, we are now in the early stages of another wave of infections and deaths. This is tragic, “said Ghebreyesus on Wednesday.
“How can that be? Shouldn’t vaccines put out the flames of the pandemic? Yes, and in the countries with most vaccines they do [vaccines] help. But that’s the thing about an inferno: if you lose even part of it, the rest will keep burning. And the embers of one fire can easily light another, even more violent fire elsewhere, “he said.
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BUT WHEN WILL THE PANDEMIC END?
The WHO chief said the threat with The Covid-19 pandemic will continue to loom until it’s over everywhere. At the same time, he said vaccines are available for the “lucky few”.
“The threat isn’t over until it’s over everywhere. Anyone who thinks the pandemic is over because it is where they live is living in a fool’s paradise. Vaccines are powerful and indispensable tools. But the world doesn’t have them well used. ” said Tedros.
“Instead of being widespread to contain the pandemic on all fronts, they have been concentrated in the hands and arms of the lucky few; they have been used to protect the most privileged people in the world, including those with the lowest risk of serious illness, while they are most at risk of going unprotected, “he said.
Tredos found that more than 3.5 billion vaccine doses were administered worldwide and more than one in four people received at least one vaccine dose.
“On the surface, that’s good news. But it hides a terrible injustice,” said Tedros.
Handing out the vaccine numbers, he said, “75 percent of vaccines were given in just 10 countries. In low-income countries, only 1 percent of people received at least one dose, compared with more than half of people in the US high-income countries. “
“Some of the richest countries are now talking about a third booster vaccination for their populations, while health workers, the elderly and other vulnerable groups in the rest of the world continue to avoid it,” Tedros said.
WHAT DOES THE PANDEMIC FILL?
The global failure to share vaccines, tests and treatments, including oxygen, is fueling a two-pronged pandemic: the haves open up while the haves lock themselves off, Tedros said.
“This is not only a moral outrage, but also epidemiologically and economically self-destructive The longer this discrepancy persists, the longer the pandemic will drag on, and so will the social and economic turmoil associated with it, “said Tedros.
“The more transmissions, the more variants that have the potential to be even more dangerous than the Delta variant that is now wreaking havoc … And the more variants, the higher the likelihood that one of them will escape vaccines and takes us all back to number one. Neither of us is safe until we are all safe, ”said Tedros.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ testimony will be made ahead of the eagerly anticipated Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which will begin on Friday.
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