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“Vaccines do not mean zero covid,” said Mike Ryan, WHO emergency health officer, emphasizing that vaccines alone “will not be able to do this job.”
“We have reached (…) a turning point in the pandemic. We ask people to continue making efforts “to combat covid-19, he added at a press conference.
The WHO, responsible for the management of the pandemic, Maria Van Kerkhove, asked the population to “think carefully about what they are doing” during the next holiday period, in order to limit the transmission of the coronavirus.
“The decisions we make now … can mean life or death for us, for our family,” said the WHO official.
For the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who spoke at a UN summit on the pandemic, with the arrival of vaccines, he already “begins to see the end of the pandemic.”
“We simply cannot accept a world in which the poor and marginalized are trampled by the rich and powerful in the race for the vaccine,” said the WHO director-general, as the start of vaccination campaigns is expected. is imminent in some countries. – the richest on the planet.
The first vaccines against covid-19 are expected to arrive in Portugal in the first days of 2021 and the working group created by the Government to coordinate vaccination has already presented, this Thursday, the first version of the plan, in which the consider some of these recommendations. .
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,507,480 deaths resulting from more than 65.2 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
