Bill Gates “Return to World Health Status 25 Years with Corona 19”

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, led by Bill Gates, announced that the global health situation has returned to 25 years ago due to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). [연합뉴스]

The Bill & Mullinda Gates Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the Gates Foundation) announced that the global health situation returned to the level of the 1990s due to Corona 19. A report published earlier this month explained that Corona 19 was investigated to have a more devastating effect, especially on women, ethnic minorities, ethnic communities and the poorest.

According to the report, the share of the world’s poorest people, which had declined in the past 20 years, increased to 7% in just a few months after Corona 19. Corona 19 made 37 million people live for less than 1, $ 9 a day (about 2,200 won). The report emphasized that “the longer Corona 19 is, the more economic pain it will be.”

The number of children who received the WHO-recommended vaccine also plummeted. 84% of the world’s children were vaccinated last year, but this year it has dropped to 70%. “One of the most important issues is how low-income countries begin to return to normal levels and make progress again,” the report emphasized. “The temporary situation must not become permanent.”

The report emphasized the equitable distribution of the vaccine for the full end of COVID-19. If the two billion doses of the first vaccine developed were assigned only to rich countries, the death toll from Corona 19 was double that when the vaccine was distributed evenly. It is an analysis that if a country moves away from other countries that suffer from Corona 19, the situation of the pandemic will continue and the world will experience even greater difficulties.

On day 5, a London clinic prepares to inoculate volunteers with a corona19 test vaccine. [연합뉴스]

According to Reuters, at a press conference after the report was released on the 14th (local time), Bill Gates said: “This is a tremendous setback.” “The situation is desperate right now, but I believe that the world will emerge from the pandemic and make progress again for the development of global health.” Said. He added a positive outlook that “whether it takes two or three years, we’ll get through it and get going.”

“In the process of responding to the pandemic,” Bill Gates said in the report: “In response to the pandemic, we saw humanity: revolutionary innovation, the heroic actions of people who work on the front lines, and the best efforts of ordinary people. for their families, neighbors and communities. ” I wrote. And he added, “(Corona 19) is a crisis shared by the whole world, and the whole world must respond together.”

Meanwhile, 76 countries, including Korea, Germany, Norway and Japan, have joined COVAX, a global project that shares the Corona 19 vaccine and reserves more than 2 billion doses of vaccine. Countries participating in COVAX will cooperate by donating to 92 countries that have been selected as low and medium level economies by supporting the purchase of vaccines from their own budget.

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