Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director- General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said today, Friday, that there is a shocking unjust distribution of the anti-Corona ( known also as COVID-19) vaccines across the world.
He added that most countries in various continents have no adequate doses to vaccinate crews of the health sector and others who are susceptible to a high rate of risks of contracting the deadly virus.
He revealed that more than 700 million doses were distributed in the world so far
But 87% of those doses went to developed countries or to the higher category in the middle-income nations.
Director-General of the WHO warns that only that., 002 % of the vaccines were allotted to underdeveloped countries in Japan, Western Europe, and North America.
He went on to say that, one in every four persons in the world had doses of the vaccine in high-income countries.
However, in poor countries, only one inpidual in every 500 persons had a dose of the vaccines.
Over the days from March 29 to April 4, the WHO affirmed that some new infections with COPVID-19 were registered in the world.
Data of the United Nations (UN) organization unveiled that the figures of new infections with the deadly virus rose by 5% between the end of March and the first days of the current month.
New infections proved that the virus continues to infect more people within the last six weeks in a row.
During the last week, about 11 thousand people died of the virus which means that the death toll rose by 11% compared to the previous week.
Countries in Southeast Asia witnessed an increase in infections by 36% and another increase by 10% was registered in the eastern Mediterranean region.
In Europe, approximately 1.6 million people contracted the virus in seven days.
North and South America registered 1,3 million new infections and more than four thousand deaths.
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