The Covid-19 epidemic is starting to drag on: the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus appeared in our lives at the end of December 2019 and it never stops spreading across the surface of the planet, with all its variants… Hence the question that is on everyone’s lips: when will it (finally) end?
Good news: this week, during a visit to South Africa, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, estimated that the end of the “acute phase” of the Covid-19 epidemic was probably for this year.
70% of the world’s population must be vaccinated against Covid-19
“We are counting on an end to the acute phase of the pandemic this year, on the condition of course that 70% of the world’s population is vaccinated by the middle of the year, around June or July. (…) It’s a question of choice.“
There is therefore a condition to this good news, but it does not seem unattainable. Indeed, at present, about 62% of the world’s population received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The least vaccinated countries against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection are mainly on the African continent; by December 2021, only three African countries had vaccinated more than 50% of their population: Morocco (65%), Tunisia (53%) and Rwanda (51.6%). Conversely, about 60% of the inhabitants of European and North American countries currently have a complete vaccination schedule.
The World Health Organization (WHO) therefore encouraged the African continent to “multiply by six the rate of vaccination” against Covid-19 to achieve the health objectives set… and (finally!) put an end to this epidemic which has lasted for more than 2 years.
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