Today, Thursday, the World Health Organization provided new data on the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly three years after the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
The organization announced that the pandemic has killed one million people worldwide since January 2022, calling for the acceleration of vaccination operations.
“We have passed the tragic stage of the death of one million people with Covid-19 since the beginning of the year,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.
He called on the governments of all countries to redouble their efforts to vaccinate all health care workers, the elderly and other people most at risk, with the aim of immunizing 70 percent of the entire population.
And in January of this year, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and their partners established a partnership to provide the vaccine against Covid. This partnership aims to facilitate the distribution of doses in 34 countries where the level of vaccination was less than 10 percent, and all but six of them are located in Africa.
Tedros noted that only ten countries still have less than ten percent vaccination rates. “However, there is still a lot of work to do,” he said.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization explained that one-third of the world’s population remains unvaccinated, including two-thirds of health care workers and three-quarters of the elderly in low-income countries.
According to the latest statistics of the World Health Organization, the “Covid-19” pandemic has killed 6.45 million people worldwide since the first cases appeared at the end of 2019 in the Wuhan region of China.
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