The number of deaths from COVID-19 exceeds four million
The number of deaths from COVID-19 has exceeded four million this Wednesday, announced the director general of the World Health Organization
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus clarified that the figure “surely is a lower estimate than the real number” of deaths from the pandemic that “You are in a dangerous moment.”
Tedros warned that while many countries with high vaccination rates are already relaxing their sanitary measures, in other areas infections and hospitalizations continue to increase.
“Variants are currently winning the race against vaccines because of uneven distribution and production, which also threaten global recovery,” he added.
The Organization’s specialists asked citizens to continue taking all precautions and governments to be “extremely careful” when lifting restrictions so as not to lose the gains made.
“Assuming that transmission will not increase if we open because we are vaccinating is a false assumption. Transmission will increase because not everyone is vaccinated and because we do not know to what extent vaccines protect from passing the infection, “said Emergency Director Mike Ryan,
“Thinking that everyone is already protected and that everything has returned to normal is a very risky presumption anywhere in the world, also in Europe. “
PAHO hopes Venezuela will receive COVAX vaccines soon
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A mother takes her daughter to a medical appointment at a health center in Caracas, Venezuela.
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The Pan American Health Organization hopes that Venezuela will receive “a sufficient quantity of vaccines” through the COVAX mechanism “very soon”
PAHO recalled that, in April of this year, the Government of Venezuela decided not to accept the AstraZeneca vaccine and requested to modify the method of purchasing to choose which vaccine, which was accepted by COVAX. The Government of Venezuela made the required advance payment, which was about 100 million dollars.
“Global availability for COVAX is very limited and the next round of distribution It is being finalized and the participating countries will be informed in due course, including probably Venezuela, ”said Ciro Ugarte, director of emergencies, who recalled that AstraZeneca continues to be the one with the largest distribution.
The Secretary General condemns the assassination of the president of Haiti
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Haitian President Jovenel Moïse addresses the General Assembly. Stock Photo.
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The General secretary it has condemned in the strongest terms the assassination of the President of Haiti.
According to press information, Jovenel Moïse was killed this Wednesday by armed men who raided his residence in the Pelerin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, as reported by Prime Minister Claude Joseph.
The perpetrators of this crime must be brought to justice, ”said António Guterres, who conveyed his condolences to the people and Government of Haiti and to the family of the late president.
The Secretary General made a appeal to all Haitians to preserve the constitutional order, stand united in the face of this abominable act and reject all violence. The United Nations will continue to support the Government and people of Haiti.
One in four children under the age of 5 is not registered at birth
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A newborn receives his birth certificate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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One in four children under the age of 5 is not registered at birth, according to data from UNICEF and UNHCR who denounce the discrimination suffered by mothers, in some countries, to register them.
It is calculated that 237 million children under 5 years of age worldwide currently lack a birth certificate. Without such a document, children are at greater risk of being stateless and excluded from health care and education.
In some countries it is the fathers or other male family member who have the legal responsibility to register the birth of a child and mothers can only do so in exceptional circumstances. If the father does not register the birth, the child may be left without a certificate.
The rates are also lower among teenage mothers. In Latin America, Ecuador It requires adolescent mothers to be accompanied by a legal representative to register the births of their children, something that some women are unaware of. The civil registry officials of Costa Rica and Guatemala They are obliged to report cases of adolescent mothers to the prosecution, which is a possible deterrent for mothers to register the birth of their children.
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