WHO warns against dangers of ‘vaccine nationalism’

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom has said that the coronavirus vaccine could accelerate the world’s economic recovery.

The WHO DG warned that nationalism is not good in vaccines. “We will not help everyone like that,” he said. “When we say it is for everyone, it is for the benefit of the whole world,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom said that we have to recover together and this is for the benefit of all. The world’s economies are now interconnected, so only a few countries in the world can not be safe, he said.

The head of the World Health Organization said that they have to recover along with other countries and that is why we are asking for the vaccine to be shared.

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Dr. Tedros Adhanom clarified that if all countries recover together, the damage caused by Corona will be reduced. He earlier said that there was no magical way to get the coronavirus vaccine, but that work was underway to develop it.

“Several coronavirus vaccines have entered Phase III and we hope there will be more vaccines that will protect against the coronavirus,” he said. The head of the World Health Organization urged the citizens around the world to continue to follow Corona SOPs.