DBy the end of this year, Germany will have enough coronavirus vaccination doses to provide all people who want to get the vaccine. Boost vaccination The federal government has delayed donating vaccines to poorer countries. Federal Minister of Health Jens Span said at an event in Süddeutsche Zeitung on Wednesday: “We even pushed some of our COVAX donations, namely BioNTech’s international donations, from December to January and February in order to obtain them in Germany. Enough of these things needs a vaccine,” said the CDU politician.
This statement is probably the World Health Organization (WHO) Caused panic in Geneva. She has long criticized the unfair distribution of vaccines. According to calculations by the World Health Organization, so far, low-income countries have received only 0.4% of all vaccine doses. WHO Director-General Tan Desai said at a recent press conference that while health workers, the elderly and other high-risk groups around the world are still waiting for the first dose of vaccine, vaccinate healthy adults or vaccinate children. Vaccines are meaningless.
“The number of booster vaccines administered every day around the world is six times the number of initial vaccines in low-income countries. This is a scandal that needs to be ended now.” Ghebreyesus said that it is necessary for WHO to vaccinate 40% of the population in all countries by the end of this year. The goal of the vaccine requires an additional 550 million doses of vaccine. This corresponds to approximately ten days of production. In the United States, it is expected that a decision will be made in the next few days, requiring all adults to receive a booster vaccine.
To date, nearly 500 million doses of vaccine have been provided to 144 countries through the international COVAX program aimed at ensuring equitable access to vaccines. According to the World Health Organization, this is too little. Michael Ryan, the head of WHO’s emergency projects, accused rich countries of failing to fulfill their promises: “In the past six months, only 15% of the vaccines promised by rich countries have been delivered,” said Ryan Times Online.
