The Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg criticized the « tragedy » of vaccine inequality on Monday when she donated 100,000 euros from her foundation to the Covax program for global access to Covid-19 shocks.
The Donation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Foundation will support the purchase of vaccines intended for the most vulnerable populations and health workers in some of the world’s poorest countries.
« The international community must do more to address the tragedy address vaccine inequality, « said 18-year-old Thunberg.
» We have the means to correct the huge imbalance that exists today in the fight against Covid-19 around the world. Just as we need to with the climate crisis we’re helping those who are most vulnerable. «
She said Covax » is the best way to ensure real vaccine justice and a way out of the pandemic « .
According to ei In an AFP count, nearly 900 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines were injected in at least 206 areas around the world.
About 48 percent of the doses were given in high-income countries, which make up 16 percent of the world’s population.
Only 0.1 percent was administered in the 29 lowest-income countries, which make up nine percent of the world’s population.
The facility in Covax ensures that the 92 poorest participating economies have access to coronavirus surges, with the costs being covered by the donors.
Since the first delivery in Ghana on February 24th, Covax has delivered more than 39 million doses to 114 participating areas.
Covax is sponsored by the WHO, the Gavi vaccine alliance and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
The program aims to distribute enough doses to up to 27 percent of the population in the 92 poorest participating economies by the end of the year The facility launched a push for additional $ 2 billion in donations Thursday, saying it needed the money upfront to reserve Covid vaccine doses for the rest of the year. About $ 400 million was raised at Thursday’s inaugural conference, while Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will host a Covax funding summit focusing on the 92 countries in June.
« Greta Thunberg has joined millions of people around the world inspired to take action to address the climate crisis and their strong support for vaccine justice to fight the Covid-19 pandemic reaffirms their commitment to make our world a healthier, safer and more equitable place for all people, « said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
« I urge the world community to follow Greta’s example and do everything possible to support Covax and the am Protect the world’s most vulnerable people from this pandemic. «
The WHO consistently established the link between human health, animal health and the health of the planet during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The novel coronavirus, by believed to have made the species jump out of the wild, has killed more than three million people worldwide since the outbreak in China in December 2019.
Thunberg said earlier this month that she plans to hold the COP26 climate summit in Skip Glasgow in November. The uneven introduction of Covid vaccination campaigns would mean that countries could not participate on equal terms.
While the climate crisis has been largely overshadowed by the pandemic, the COP26 will follow a summit hosted this week by US President Joe Biden is seen as one of the ways to put the climate back on the agenda.
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