"Shocking imbalance": About 60 more countries await first corona vaccines - Walla! news

2021-04-10T20:01:44.239Z

Only one in every 500 people in poor countries has been vaccinated with at least one dose against corona, and the global program to vaccinate vulnerable populations is unlikely to meet the ambitious target set. The delay is mainly due to the slowdown in vaccine production in India, and experts warn of the consequences: "Risk dragging the epidemic for additional years"

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"Shocking imbalance": About 60 countries are still awaiting the first Corona vaccines

The delay is mainly due to the slowdown in vaccine production in India, and experts warn of the consequences: "Risk dragging the epidemic for additional years"

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"If I do not get the second dose, I may die."

Vaccination campaign in Kenya (Photo: Reuters)

The shortage of vaccines is mainly due to India's decision to stop exporting the vaccines from the Serum Institute plant, which produces the vast majority of Astrazenka's rations on which the plan relied to supply about a third of the global population in the fight against the corona virus.

The regular supply of vaccines in these countries is dwindling, as is the case in some of the first countries to receive COVAX shipments, and the additional delivery of second doses in the 12-week time window is questionable.

In vaccination tents set up at Kenyata National Hospital in Nairobi, many of those who came to their first doses were not sure they would receive a second dose "My fear is that if I do not get the second dose, my immune system will be weak, so I may die," said Oscar Odinga, a civil servant. .

Astraznica vaccine (Photo: Reuters)

Internal World Health Organization documents obtained by the IP show the uncertainty about shipments that "causes some countries to lose confidence in COVAX" This leads to the fact that those countries are considering support for vaccinations from China and Russia, which have not been approved by European or national authorities United States.

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization urged rich countries to urgently distribute ten million doses to meet the UN target of starting a vaccine against corona in every country within the first hundred days of the year. So far, countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for the program. Delays in their transfer to poor countries

Donations of vaccines between countries are usually made for political reasons that do not take into account the morbidity data in that country.According to data from the organization that monitors vaccine shipments, so far 19 countries have agreed to share vaccines with other countries.

"In the absence of high immunization coverage around the world, we risk dragging the epidemic for additional years," said Livnia and Sudban, a professor at Duke University's World Health Institute.

"Every day that the virus is found to continue to exist is an opportunity for it to change to a more lethal version."

According to the International Rescue Committee, corona and deaths last month soared in many countries affected by the crisis: 322% in Kenya, 379% in Yemen and 529% in north-eastern Syria.

"The World Health Organization has promised beyond its capabilities and has not supplied the goods," said sturdy expert Prof. Brock Baker of Northeastern University.

"Why should we believe that they will now be able to increase production and ensure vaccinations in the coming months?"

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