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The world touched this Saturday 200,000 dead for the new coronavirus, While the UN joins international efforts to find a vaccine Accessible to all, the only way to stop this pandemic, which also sinks economies.
Defeat the current pandemic, which forces half the population to confinement and exposes the planet to a unprecedented recession, will suppose the “Most massive public health effort in history”, affirmed the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.
Vaccines must be safe, accessible and available to all, Guterres stressed in a virtual meeting, in which the leaders of France and Germany participated, but not of China, the cradle of the pandemic that emerged in late 2019; Nor from the United States, which accuses the WHO of not warning early enough about the crisis.
While in Europe the contagion curve seems to be entering a downward phase and in Latin America in an ascending, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a “historic collaboration” to accelerate the production of vaccines and treatments against Covid-19, explained its director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The race to find the right product has already started in laboratories, with half a dozen clinical trials, especially in the UK and Germany.
However, one catastrophe hides another: about 400,000 more people could die this year of malaria (malaria) due to the problems with the distribution of mosquito nets and the medications that the coronavirus is causing, the WHO warned.
In Zimbabwe, the number of malaria cases increased by almost 50% compared to last year.
Deaths from coronavirus in the world now exceed 197,000, according to a balance this Saturday. And the WHO continues to insist that this is not the time to let down our guard and that a second pandemic wave can come at any moment.
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