2022 should be the year “in which we end the pandemic,” said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, who called for reducing inequality in access to vaccines.
At a press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed a wish: “2022 should be the year we end the pandemic”.
With the appearance of the omicron variant, detected in South Africa in November and much more contagious, some countries are facing a fifth wave of COVID-19 and decided to tighten sanitary restrictions.
Along these lines, the head of the WHO warned of the risks of family gatherings during this holiday season.
“Next year, WHO is committed to doing everything possible to end the pandemic”, He added, and then called for inequalities in access to vaccines to be reduced in the most disadvantaged countries.
“If we want to end the pandemic next year, we must end inequality (of access to vaccines) by ensuring that 70% of the population of all countries is vaccinated by the middle of next year“Said Tedros.
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