The coronavirus pandemic continue to rampage at high speed across the planet, with the help of the covid omicron variant. More than 277 million infections have already been officially notified since the pandemic began and also the death of 5.38 million people due to COVID-19.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has gone out of its way to declare that the pandemic could be prolonged by the third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, known as the ‘booster doses’. The reason not your app, since it is already being administered by many countries around the world, but the distribution of covid vaccines at a global level, which once again represents an obstacle to eradicating the coronavirus pandemic.
Europe is the continent with the best rate of vaccination against COVID-19, since in the vast majority of its countries, the coronavirus immunization rate is greater than 70%, with the exception of some nations located in the east. But there are other continents, as is the case in Africa, where the complete covid vaccination schedule has not been received even by 10% of its population.
Vaccinating in less developed countries, the key
The WHO has wanted to convey the importance of carrying out a mass vaccination against coronavirus in those countries that are less developed, since the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could be more effective in those places and the pandemic would be prolonged. With all this, the WHO has transferred that it considers booster doses against COVID-19 useless if it is not vaccinated in the poorest countries.
The director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, has expressed his position on this situation: “It is likely that booster vaccines prolong the pandemic rather than ending it, because supply is diverted to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunities to spread and mutate. “
Most of the countries with a vaccination rate below 5% are in Africa. One such country is Nigeria, which has even had to throw out a million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which had been donated, because they had already expired and could cause adverse reactions in the body if they were administered to the population.
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