“The pandemic will end when the world decides to end it,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday evening at the “World Health Summit” in Berlin. We know of almost 50,000 registered deaths per week – the pandemic is far from over.
He recalled the WHO target that at least 40 percent of people in each country should be vaccinated by the end of the year. “This goal can be achieved,” stressed Tedros. He thanked Germany for its generosity, but more was needed. Countries that have already achieved a vaccination quota of at least 40 percent – including all G20 countries – should give priority to the UN vaccine program Covax or the African initiative Avat when it comes to vaccine deliveries. “No country can end the pandemic in isolation from the rest of the world,” warned Tedros.
In Germany, according to the latest figures from the Federal Ministry of Health, 66.2 percent of the total population are now fully vaccinated. According to this, 69.1 percent received at least one vaccine dose.
According to Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), Germany is the second largest donor within the anti-pandemic cooperation ACT-A, to which Covax also belongs. So far, the Federal Republic has contributed 2.2 billion euros, and by the end of the year, more than 100 million doses of vaccine will have been donated.
The “World Health Summit” takes place in Berlin and digitally. The event started on Sunday and will last until Tuesday. It deals, for example, with lessons from the corona pandemic and is among other things under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The president is the Dean of the Charité, Axel Pries. (SDA)