The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hopes to achieve 70% vaccination coverage for the entire world population.
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“We have passed the tragic milestone of one million deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the year.” The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, gave an update on the coronavirus pandemic at a press conference on Thursday August 25.
It also called on the governments of all countries to redouble their efforts to vaccinate all health care workers, the elderly and other people most at risk, in order to achieve 70% vaccination coverage for the entire population.
In January this year, the WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and their partners created the Covid Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP), with the aim of facilitating the distribution of doses. in 34 countries with less than 10% vaccination coverage, all but six of which are in Africa.
Now, he said, only 10 countries still have less than 10% coverage. “However, there is still a lot to do”, he said. According to the boss of the WHO, a third of the world’s population is still not vaccinated, including two thirds of health personnel and three quarters of the elderly in low-income countries.