The World Health Organization announced on Thursday August 25, 2022 that the number of deaths from COVID-19 in 2022 alone has reached 1 million, a record that sad Because the world now has all the tools that can prevent death from this deadly infection.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director of the World Health Organization, questioned whether The world is now catching up with the COVID-19 outbreak. Is it true? “This week, we crossed a tragic milestone. After 1 million people have died this year until now.” “We can’t say that. We are learning to live with COVID-19. If there are still people who die becauseCovid-19 to 1 million this year alone. Even though we have been facing the epidemic for two and a half years and have all the tools necessary to prevent these deaths.”
“We urge all governments to increase their efforts to vaccinate all health care workers, the elderly and other vocal groups to reach vaccination.vaccinereach 70% of the population by June,” Dr Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, however, as of now, 136 countries have failed to achieve the goal, and 66 of them. has a population vaccination rate of less than 40%.
“It’s nice to see some countries that used to have low vaccination rates. is accelerating more now Especially in Africa,” the WHO director said, adding that only 10 countries now have less than 10 percent of the population receiving two doses, most of them facing humanitarian emergencies.
Dr Adhanom Ghebreyesus also stressed that there is still a lot to be done. Today, about one-third of the world’s population is unvaccinated, including two-thirds of health workers and 75% of the elderly in low-income countries.
Since COVID-19 The epidemic began in late 2019, with a total of 599,115,546 confirmed cases, while the total number of deaths stood at 6,480,729.