China Urges Nations to Build "Great Wall" of Immunity against Covid 19

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the international community today, Saturday, to build the " great wall" of immunity against the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19).

Wang Yi addressed the ninth edition of the International Forum of Peace held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

He said that the nations of the world must face the imminent challenges resulted from COVID-19 together.

He added that the most persistent priority is how to build the great wall of immunity to deter the deadly virus, transcend political discrimination and implement international cooperation to combat the epidemic.

China detected the Coronavirus for the first time lately in 2019 but it donated more than 480 million doses of the anti-corona vaccine to other countries across the planet.

The Chinese minister assured that his country will continue working to improve methods of getting the vaccines and affordability in developing countries.

On the other hand, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, General- Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the world is getting through a very dangerous stage of developing the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) after the emerging of the “Delta” strain.

He added that this strain was detected in ninety-eight regions in the world so far, stressing that the “Delta” strain is very dangerous as it continues to mutate.

He added that this strain becomes the most overwhelming in a number of countries so the planet faces challenges due to that stage of the pandemic.

Chief of the WHO went on to say that the health system across the globe must monitors thoroughly the new mutations of the deadly virus and prepared means to handle them, pointing out the importance of early examinations, checks of infection, isolating the patients, and treating them.

He recommends other people to put on facial masks and shields along with social distancing as well as airing the places of gatherings.

Dr. Ghebreyesus urges the international community to share vaccines, respiratory devices, medicaments, methods of examinations, and accelerating vaccination, indicating that the best way to keep the pandemic at bay, save souls, catalyst the recovery of the world economy, and prevent the emergence of new strains of the COVID-19.

However, A new count prepared by “Reuters”, a news agency and Johns Hopkins University, USA, reveals that the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) has claimed the lives of more than 4 million and eighty thousand people.