The Director-General of the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that the comprehensive strengthening plan of rich countries may extend the world’s Coronavirus disease He also stated that “no country can speed up the emergence of this pandemic.”

WHO Director-General Tan Desai said that the top priority must be to reduce the number of deaths and help all countries achieve the minimum vaccination targets that many countries have not yet reached. He pointed out that “the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths occur in people who have not been vaccinated, not people who have not been vaccinated.”

Tedros said that although vaccines have saved many lives this year, their unequal sharing “has already claimed many lives.” He said that 3.5 million people will die from COVID-19 in 2021, and with the development of new omicron variants, “all of us need to take additional precautions”.

The head of the WHO had previously called for a suspension of booster vaccination for healthy adults before the end of this year to deal with the uneven distribution of vaccines worldwide. He said at an online press conference on Wednesday that about 20% of the current daily vaccine doses are boosters or extra doses.

Tan Desai added: “The enhanced package may prolong the pandemic rather than end the pandemic because it will shift supplies to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, thereby providing more opportunities for the virus to spread and mutate. Chance.”

He said, “Frankly, it’s hard to understand” three-quarters of health workers in Africa are still not vaccinated, and distortions in global supply mean that only half of the WHO member states can achieve up to 40% of the population. The goal of the vaccine. the end of this year.

Tan Desai once again called on manufacturers and other countries to prioritize the COVAX program in order to provide vaccines to countries that need it more, and “work together to support the most backward.”

“Unless we vaccinate the world… I don’t think we can end this pandemic,” Tedros said. But he added that the authorities now know more about the virus and have effective tools to fight it; “We need to strengthen full implementation and fairness, and hope that this epidemic will end in 2022.”