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HO CHI MINH CITY: A total of 184 countries and economies have joined the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) facility, an international initiative co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners to ensure effective and equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines. announced the head of WHO.
“Covax represents the largest portfolio of potential Covid-19 vaccines and the most effective way to share safe and effective vaccines equitably around the world,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual press conference. .
“Equitable vaccine sharing is the fastest way to safeguard high-risk communities, stabilize health systems and drive a truly global economic recovery,” he added.
As one of the leading countries in vaccine development, China has officially joined Covax, a move described by a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry as an important step in upholding the concept of a shared health community for all and for honor your commitment to convert Covax. 19 vaccines in a global public good.
Tedros also mentioned “the worrying phase” that the Covid-19 pandemic has entered.
With the arrival of winter in the northern hemisphere and the sharp acceleration in the number of new cases of Covid-19, Tedros warned that the next few months will be difficult, particularly in Europe and North America.
“It is therefore important that all governments focus on the fundamentals that help break the chains of transmission and save lives and livelihoods,” he said.
As the world struggles to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, countries around the world are racing to find a vaccine.
According to the WHO, as of October 19, 198 Covid-19 candidate vaccines were being developed worldwide, and 44 of them were in clinical trials.
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