United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an immediate global COVID-19 vaccination plan which would include present and potential vaccine producers.
Guterres was presenting his ‘Our Common Agenda’ report, during a media briefing in New York:
He says vaccination programmes are not being implemented fast enough to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In our words, multilateralism is failing its most basic test. The lack of a global response to the vaccination programme to end the COVID-19 pandemic is a clear and tragic example.
The longer the virus circulates among billions of unvaccinated people, the higher the risk that it will develop into more dangerous variants that could rip through vaccinated and unvaccinated populations alike with a far higher fatality rate.
We need an immediate global vaccination plan implemented by an emergency task force made up of present and potential vaccine producers,” says Guterres.
