“We have passed the tragic milestone of one million deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning of the year,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference.
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The head of the health agency ONU called on governments in all countries to redouble their efforts to vaccinate all healthcare workers, the elderly and other especially exposed or vulnerable groups, to achieve 70% vaccination coverage for the entire population.
Acceleration of coverage
In January 2022, the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and their partners created the Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Alliance, with the aim of facilitating the distribution of doses in 34 countries where the Vaccination coverage is less than 10%, of which all but 6 are in Africa.
Tedros celebrated that there are only 10 states left with coverage below 10%, although “there is still a lot to do”.
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Alerts
The WHO chief warned that a third of the world's population is still not vaccinated, including two-thirds of healthcare workers and three-quarters of the elderly in low-income countries.
According to the agency's latest statistics, the Covid pandemic is responsible for 6,45 million deaths worldwide since the first cases emerged in late 2019 in China.
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