WHO Warns: African Countries Will Not Get Corona Vaccine Before 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the negative repercussions resulting from the lack of availability of anti-Coronavirus vaccines in Africa on a large scale before 2023, according to Al-Arabiya news channel.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, criticized the actions committed by the rich countries.

Ghebreyesus added that the world is threatened with a "catastrophic moral failure" due to the unequal distribution of anti-virus vaccine policies between different countries of the world.

Ghebreyesus indicated, according to the BBC, that about 39 million doses of vaccines have already been given in 49 rich countries, while one of the poor countries has received only 25 doses.

So far, China, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have developed vaccines against the Coronavirus ( known also as COVID-19), while international teams have developed other vaccines, such as the American-German Pfizer vaccine, and almost all of these countries have given priority in distributing vaccines to their citizenry.

At a meeting of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, Ghebreyesus said: "I must be frank, the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure, and the price of this failure will be paid by lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries.

He went on to say that the "Me First" approach will be devastating because it is it would encourage higher and higher prices for vaccines.

He continued, "Ultimately, these actions will only prolong the pandemic, the restrictions necessary to contain it, and human and economic suffering.

Ghebreyesus called for full commitment to the Kovacs initiative to distribute vaccines worldwide, which begins next month.

But the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia, Melita Voinovich, said that the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) will become an endemic virus in the future but with a low level of threat.

Voinovich added - according to the (Russia Today) news channel today, Tuesday, that even the use of a highly effective vaccine, does not guarantee to neutralize the virus or eliminate it completely.