UN: Vaccination against coronavirus unsatisfactory in world
Health
- 30 November, 2021
- 05:42
The world is not keeping up with the global coronavirus vaccination, UN Secretary-General's Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a briefing, Report informs.
"We're not in the place that we would like to be," he said. A UN official noted it was planned to get 40% of people vaccinated globally by the end of the year.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called on the world to strengthen controls over the spread of the new "omicron" strain.
In turn, the Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic depends on several measures.
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