Mantovani: We see an end to the pandemic but make poorer countries safe
“We clearly see the light at the end of the tunnel, but with the pandemic we will have to live together for a long time. In Africa only 4 out of 100 people received the full course of vaccination. In Italy we are 80%. There is a lot of concern for low-income countries, because it is not enough to deliver the doses, we also need the structures and skills to be able to administer them. There have been cases of vaccines that have remained unused and expired ”. Alberto said so Mantovani, scientific director of the Humanitas Clinical Institute and president of the Humanitas Foundation for Research, in an interview with ‘Corriere della Sera’.
“Helping the countries further back, with medium-long term projects not only related to Covid-19, it does not mean having to give up on something. We have muscles, we need a little more head and heart. It is absurd that Africa should almost totally depend on others from a health point of view – he explained – And it is not just a moral problem: to feel really calm, even on the birth of new variants of the coronavirus, we need to secure those areas in which vaccinations proceed with an unacceptable slowness. For example, the Mu variant is spreading in Peru, where 32% of the population is vaccinated with two doses ”.
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