Prime Minister Olmer Gordon Brown Urge world leaders to convene an emergency summit to deal with the “scandal” of the global coronavirus vaccine lack.
He called on the President of the United States Joe Biden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson And this year’s G20 Chairman and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi With the rising number of African deaths, take action before the United Nations General Assembly in September.
According to Mr. Brown, Africa has only fully vaccinated 1.9% of its population, and has been forced to export millions of life-saving Covid vaccines to Europe, and Europe has fully vaccinated more than 50%.
He said it was “shocking, unfair, and close to neocolonialism”, at a time when Africa is facing the deadliest surge in infections.
Until everyone is safe, no one is safe anywhere, and everyone will live in fear until no one lives in fear
Mr. Brown said that the stagnation of African vaccination means that 90% of African countries will not be able to achieve the September target of vaccinating 10% of their citizens.
He urged that the summit must resolve the issue of vaccine exports and insufficient funding of the International Covax Fund, which aims to send 2 billion vaccines to poor countries this year.
Mr. Brown said his research showed that in the next two months, the Aspen factory produced approximately 10 million single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccines. South Africa Will be exported to the European Union.
He said: “Countries must end unfair arrangements that prevent sufficient vaccines from entering low-income countries. Those countries with oversupply must end the shackles of existing vaccines, not only releasing them to Africa and other low-income countries, but also helping financial and logistical support.
“Only the highest level of intervention by Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, and current G20 Chairman Mario Draghi at the Global Vaccine Summit next month can end this vaccine inequality that has shamed the world.
“The biggest threat to all of us comes from the unbridled spread and mutation of the new coronavirus in poor, unvaccinated countries.
“We must keep reminding ourselves that the reason for ensuring mass vaccination around the world is: until everyone is safe, no one is safe anywhere, and everyone will live in fear until no one lives in fear.”
