The head of WHO announced the victory of new strains of coronavirus in the race with vaccines

Due to vaccine nationalism, new variants of the virus have so far outperformed vaccination, Ghebreyesus said.Previously, WHO called the accumulation of vaccines by individual countries the main obstacle to defeating the pandemic.

New variants of the CORONAVIRUS are winning the race against covid-19 vaccines so far . This was stated by the DIRECTOR of the World HEALTH Organization Tedros Ghebreyesus at a briefing on Wednesday.

“New options are currently winning the race against vaccines due to unfair production and distribution of drugs,” Ghebreyesus said.

He noted that this threatens the recovery of the global economy from the crisis caused by the pandemic. According to the HEAD of WHO, a sharp increase in the incidence in many countries is directly related to the inequality in the distribution of vaccines and the constantly mutating virus.

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“Vaccine nationalism, the lion's share of which is in a handful of countries, is a morally unjustified and ineffective public health strategy against the virus. Some countries with a high level of vaccinated populations are abandoning anti-epidemic measures and easing measures, as if the pandemic is already over, ”the director of the organization emphasized.

Ghebreyesus said he was "disgusted" by the fact that millions of healthcare workers around the world have not yet been vaccinated. “From a moral, epidemiological or economic point of view, the time has come for the world to come together to fight this pandemic collectively,” he added.

The day before, Ghebreyesus stressed that despite the progress made in the fight against coronavirus, the pandemic is at a very dangerous stage. The head of WHO called the only way out of this situation a fair distribution of personal protective equipment, tests, medicines and vaccines.

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Experts from the US-British consulting company IHS Markit concluded in April that vaccine nationalism is the main obstacle in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In their opinion, despite the fact that individual countries are successfully conducting a vaccination campaign and have vaccinated a significant proportion of the population, a shortage of vaccines in poor countries can put the recovery of the world economy in jeopardy.

IHS Markit said that if developed countries continue to accumulate vaccines and do not help in their even distribution, then the pandemic will drag on not only into 2022, but also into 2023. This is due to the fact that in countries with a shortage of vaccines, new, more aggressive variants of the coronavirus will appear. Which can nullify already conducted vaccination campaigns.

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