At a time when the new crown epidemic is raging around the world, although countries are gradually developing and producing vaccines against the new crown virus, the rich countries of the world are more capable of obtaining vaccines than poor countries, making it difficult to fill the gap in global epidemic prevention. In response, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Secretary-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned that rich countries’ scramble to obtain various new crown vaccines will only worsen inequality and delay the global emergence of the epidemic.
According to the Agence France-Presse report, Tedros said that the epidemic has just exposed the problem of global inequality and has worsened it. Although vaccines are the most effective tool to fight the epidemic, “vaccine nationalism may be beneficial to short-term political goals. Sight and self-defeating.”
COVAX, a global vaccine acquisition mechanism led by the WHO, is committed to equitable delivery of vaccines to all parts of the world. Tan Desai also said that WHO hopes that all countries will be vaccinated for medical personnel and the elderly within the first 100 days of 2021. In addition, the WHO took the trouble to reiterate that the only way to defeat the epidemic and revive the global economy is to ensure that the priority groups in each country can be vaccinated.
Tan Desai also used the 2009 H1N1 epidemic as a lesson for the past. At that time, the epidemic was not contained until poor countries received the vaccine. He emphasized, “I don’t think this is a correct history. It is very bad.” “If we hoard vaccines, if we are unwilling to share it, it will be a major moral failure.” “Let the epidemic continue to raging, and it will only delay in the end. Is this what we want to slow the global economic recovery? This is still our choice.”
