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English News and Press Release on World about Health and Epidemic; published on 31 May 2021 by WHO

A dangerous gap is emerging between richer and poorer nations' recovery, and the longer we wait to act, the costlier action becomes in human suffering and economic losses.

A small number of pharmaceutical companies with the support of developed country governments invested billions of dollars in research and development of COVID-19 vaccines, related medicines, and technologies including mRNA, DNA, RNA, viral vector, protein subunit and testing materials along with their production and distribution.

I do not think that the waiver will help us overcoming the current vaccine shortage. The first problem is that there is not enough infrastructure – manufacturing facilities, equipment, personnel – to expand vaccine production to the levels it should be at to meet pandemic demand. In this context, altering the intellectual property status quo does little – Ana Santos Rutschman, assistant professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd S...

SCIENCE; (DATA) OUR WORLD IN DATA All told, 14 billion doses could leave factories before the year is over, according to a document written in advance of a March summit about stepping up the production pace. Thats a startling number—before the pandemic, all of the worlds vaccinemakers together produced at most 5.5 billion doses annually—and the document stresses that its the best of all scenarios. “We have a set of manufacturing challenges that make it unlikely that we can meet the 14-bil...

The single most important priority of the global community is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks, to halt its rapid transmission and reverse the...

The single most important priority of the global community is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks, to halt its rapid transmission and reverse the trend of consequential global distress. We know that this goal is only achievable when everyone, everywhere can access the health technologies they need for COVID-19 detection, prevention, treatment and response. This pandemic is far from over, socio-economic inequalities have dramatically increased and lives continue to be lost. Now mo...

Special press conference to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool Special press conference to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool 28 May 2021 18:00 – 19:00 CET Speakers: His Excellency Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica The Honourable Arancha González Laya, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Spain Professor Jesús Marco, Vice-president, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) The Honourable Meryame Kitir, Minister of...

The world is witnessing a tale of two pandemics. France is unwinding lockdown measures, while in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Brazil, Covid-19 cases are ratcheting up. “What matters is the momentum," Health Minister Olivier Veran said earlier this month as he celebrated halving the seven-day moving average of new cases in France. But the global momentum is worrying. According to the World Health Organization, more cases were reported in the last two weeks of April than in the entire first six m...

Lessons In January, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a blunt warning. The world was “on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” he said. Wealthy countries were buying up available COVID-19 vaccines, leaving tiny amounts for others—a replay of what happened during the 2009 influenza pandemic. “The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Tedros said...