Switzerland: "Vaccine equity is not charity" - WHO chief amid Omicron variant surge

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World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on richer countries to strive for COVID-19 vaccine equity to end the pandemic amid Omicron variant concerns, in Geneva on Monday.

The WHO chief was speaking at a special session of the World Health Assembly. Adhanom also said that South Africa and Botswana should be congratulated and not punished for discovering the new variant.

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SOT, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation: “Vaccine equity is not charity; it’s in every country’s best interests. No country can vaccinate its way out of the pandemic alone. The longer vaccine inequity persists, the more opportunity this virus has to spread and evolve in ways we cannot predict nor prevent. We are all in this together.”

SOT, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organistion: “The emergence of the highly-mutated Omicron variant underlines just how perilous and precarious our situation is. South Africa and Botswana should be thanked for detecting, sequencing and reporting this variant, not penalised. Indeed, Omicron demonstrates just why the world needs a new accord on pandemics: our current system disincentivises countries from alerting others to threats that will inevitably land on their shores.”

SOT, Charles Michel, President of European Council: “There is no silver bullet. No single way out. And there are no easy solutions in managing the massive challenges of global health threats. But we have already shown that, when we do work together, human ingenuity knows no bounds. Developing vaccines in just ten months is a perfect example. nothing short of a miracle.”

SOT, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: “The global community is faced with the threat of a new, highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, Omicron. This is not the first variant – and this time the world showed it is learning. And I want to say explicitly that I am personally grateful to the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa for that. South Africa’s analytical work and transparency in sharing its results was indispensable in allowing a swift global response. It, no doubt, saved many lives and it is a model of how international cooperation should work in the face of cross-border health threats. Because only collective, effective and immediate responses can work against viruses that, of course, do not respect either borders or good intentions.”

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