New York: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that new coronavirus variants continue to emerge as a result of inequitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines among countries.
“Vaccine inequality is allowing #Covid19 variants to develop & run wild, condemning the world to more deaths & prolonging an economic slowdown,” Guterres said on Twitter.
A sustainable decrease in the number of cases in any country can only be achieved with a “coordinated, equitable” approach toward the distribution of vaccines, the UN chief stressed.
Since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization registered almost 240 million Covid-19 cases globally, including more than 4.8 million related deaths. Over 6.6 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered globally to date, which includes about 2.8 billion fully vaccinated people.
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