Geneva - Sana
The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticized the European Union’s announcement of its intention to impose restrictions on the export of any vaccine produced in its countries.
The BBC reported that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned today that “dealing with the vaccine on national grounds and storing vaccines will prolong the epidemic and slow down the global economic recovery,” describing it as a “catastrophic moral failure that will increase global inequality.”
It is noteworthy that Ghebreyesus recently pointed out that "national fanaticism in the field of vaccines" may cost the global economy about 9.2 trillion dollars, and that the economies of rich countries may incur about 4.5 trillion dollars of those losses.
The European Union imposed restrictions amid a dispute with manufacturers of some vaccines about the delay in delivering the vaccine to the countries of the bloc, as companies producing the vaccine, according to current laws, must obtain a permit to export it outside the countries of the Union, and its countries have the right to audit export operations.