Two-thirds of health workers and three-quarters of older people in low-income countries remain unvaccinated.
Since the beginning of 2022, more than one million people have died worldwide due to the effects of the COVID-19 infection. This is what the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a press conference on Thursday, August 25.
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This year, we passed the tragic milestone of 1 million reported COVID-19 deaths. We cannot say that we are learning to live with the coronavirus when 1 million people have died from COVID-19 this year alone, when we have all the tools we need to prevent those deaths,” he said.
The head of the WHO appealed to all countries with a request to intensify vaccination efforts – he noted that to defeat the coronavirus, at least 70% of the population must be fully vaccinated.
Ghebreyesus said “there is more to do.” Today, one-third of the world’s population remains unvaccinated, including two-thirds of health workers and three-quarters of older people in low-income countries.
Recall that the number of cases of COVID-19 tripled in Kyiv in one week. The number of residents of the capital who end up in hospitals with severe forms of the coronavirus disease is also growing.
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Source: korrespondent
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