Tuesday, November 16, 2021

WHO Special Envoy Says Covid-19 Now A Pandemic Of Poor Nations

Dr David Nabarro: ‘If there is a hoovering up of vaccines for the boosters, that is just going to have a global consequences.’ Photograph: Pierre Albouy/Reuters 

 The Guardian: Covid now a pandemic of poor nations, WHO envoy tells UK MPs  

Rich counties taking risk by ‘hoovering up’ boosters, all-party group on coronavirus told 

Covid is now a pandemic of poor nations, a leading global expert has told a cross-party group of MPs, adding that governments that are attempting to vaccinate their way out of the pandemic are taking a huge risk. 

Dr David Nabarro, the World Health Organization’s special envoy on Covid, told the all-party group on coronavirus that the world was still deep in the pandemic, with 5,413 reported deaths in the past 24 hours alone. 

“This is a disease now fundamentally of poor people and poor nations,” he added.  

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WNU Editor: I disagree. Covid-19 is still a global pandemic that does not discriminate whether you are poor or rich.

1 comment:

Raf said...

Indeed, WNU Editor. What's happening in Europe, richest continent of the World, is telling a different story.