Digital Desk: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday stated that the worst pandemic emergency- hospitalization, lack of beds, oxygen all could come to an end this year if unfairness in vaccinations and medicines issues are addressed quickly.
Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme, expressed his views on vaccine inequity.
During a panel discussion on vaccine inequality hosted by the World Economic Forum, Ryan said, "we may never end the virus" because such pandemic emergency "end up becoming part of the ecosystem."
Also, "we can end the pandemic emergency this year if we do the things that we've been talking about," he stated.
The World Health Organization has criticized the inequality in COVID-19 vaccinations between wealthy and developing nations as a disastrous moral collapse. Fewer than 10% of individuals in lower-income nations have received even one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Ryan said to the world and business leaders that if vaccines and other implements aren't conveyed equitably, the disaster of the virus, which has so far slain more than 5.5 million individuals worldwide, would persist.
Moreover, everyone needs to get to low levels of infection incidence with maximum vaccination for all. Nobody has to die, expressed Ryan.
"The problem is: It's the end. It's the hospitalizations. It's the disorder of our social, economic, political tactics that's driven the catastrophe - not the virus."
Ryan further pointed into the growing controversy regarding whether COVID-19 should be deemed endemic, a title some nations like Spain have called for to sufficiently assist live with the virus, or still a pandemic - concerning heightened standards that many nations have taken to fight the spread of the virus.
Public health officials have cautioned it is positively doubtful COVID-19 will be eliminated. They stated that it would continue killing people, though at much lower levels, even after becoming endemic. Therefore, the pandemic emergency might be lower, but the virus is less likely to collapse.
Moreover, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed that the omicron variant "resumes cleaning the world," counting that 18 million fresh COVID-19 cases were registered prior week.
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