At a press conference held on Monday, March 1, the WHO said it is ” unrealistic “To think that the Covid-19 will be defeated before 2022. The organization also took the opportunity to recall the importance of vaccination as well as the deployment of vaccine doses in low-income countries in order to fight against the spread of the virus .
It is “unrealistic” to think that we will end the virus before 2022
In a press conference on Monday, March 1, 2021, WHO Executive Director Dr Michael Ryan said it is unrealistic to believe that we will be done with Covid-19 before 2022. According to him, ” it would be very premature and, I think, unrealistic to think that we will be done with this virus by the end of the year “.
For him, the priority is the fight against hospitalizations and deaths from the coronavirus through vaccination. He explains thus “ I think what we can be done with, if we’re smart, are the hospitalizations, deaths and tragedy associated with this pandemic “. For the time being and according to a count made by AFP, more than 244 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been administered in at least 123 countries or territories around the world.
A vaccination campaign struggling to start in low-income countries
While he had set a goal of starting the vaccination of health personnel in all countries of the world during the first 100 days of the year, the Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, regrets that he struggles to be filled. He thus declared: “ It is interesting that health workers in low income countries are starting to get vaccinated, but it is unfortunate that this happens three months after the start of vaccinations in rich countries. I also regret that countries vaccinate young people who are not at great risk rather than health workers elsewhere. “.
Given that there are less than 40 days to meet the target, the World Health Organization recalled that its partner device Covax (a program for the distribution of vaccines in low-income countries) provides for the dispatch of 11 millions more doses in the coming months. For the moment, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have been the first two countries to benefit from it and have thus been able to start their own vaccination campaign since Monday, March 1, 2021.
