World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We have passed the tragic death of one million people from Covid-19 since the beginning of the year, and we call on governments of all countries to redouble their efforts to vaccinate all healthcare workers, the elderly and other most exposed people. risk, with the goal of immunizing 70 percent of the entire population.

Tedros noted that “only ten countries still have immunization rates of less than ten percent. However, there is still a lot of work to be done,” and explained that “a third of the world’s population is still not immunized, including two thirds of those working in vaccination, health care and three quarters of older people in low-income countries.

This January, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and their partners formed a partnership to provide a Covid vaccine. This partnership aims to facilitate dose distribution in 34 countries where vaccination rates are less than 10 percent, all but six of which are located in Africa.

According to the latest statistics from the World Health Organization, the Covid-19 pandemic has killed 45.6 million people worldwide since the first cases appeared at the end of 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan.