Over 80% Africans Yet To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine – WHO   

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that 83 per cent of all Africans are yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine.Information Guide Nigeria

Speaking in a statement, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, said: “This is not acceptable to me, and it should not be acceptable to anyone.

“ Are some lives worth more than others?”

According to THE GUARDIAN, Ghebreyesus said WHO was launching a new strategy to scale up genomic surveillance, for deadly pathogens that had “epidemic and pandemic potential” to tackle future threats of the virus.

“This is our third strategic plan for COVID-19, and it could and should be our last”, he said, laying out three possible scenarios for how the pandemic could evolve this year.

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“The most likely scenario is that the virus continues to evolve, but the severity of disease it causes reduces over time as immunity increases due to vaccination and infection.

“Periodic spikes in cases and deaths may occur as immunity wanes, which may require periodic boosting for vulnerable populations.

“In the best-case scenario, we may see less severe variants emerge, and boosters or new formulations of vaccines won’t be necessary.

“Striving to vaccinate 70 per cent of the population of every country remains essential for bringing the pandemic under control, with priority given to health workers, older people and other at-risk groups.

“However, a week has passed since the truce was announced, but no food has been allowed into Tigray yet,’’ he said.

“Every hour makes a difference when people are starving to death. No food has reached Tigray since mid-December, and almost no fuel has been delivered since August of last year.Jamb Result

“The siege of six million people in Tigray by Eritrean and Ethiopian forces for more than 500 days, is one of the longest in modern history.

“Sustaining WHO’s response to all of these emergencies, from the COVID-19 pandemic, to Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and more, requires the generosity of donors.”

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