Only 58 countries meet WHO’s 70% Covid vaccination target: WHO chief
- July 8, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Only 58 countries meet WHO’s 70% Covid vaccination target: WHO chief
Subject: IR
Context:
Background:
Last year, the WHO had set the 70 percent benchmark for countries to vaccinate their populations.
Present status:
- In the last 18 months, more than 12 billion vaccines had been distributed around the world
- About 75 percent of the world’s health workers and over-60s are now vaccinated
Why slow progress?
- Supply , demand and distribution problem
- Access of tests and therapeutics
- Disinformation
New development:
- On the testing front, a new sub-licence agreement between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on behalf of C-TAP, and South African pharmaceutical company Biotech Africa was formalised over a fortnight ago to hasten the manufacture and sale of a Covid-19 serological antibody technology around the world.
C-TAP
It is the WHO’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool initiative, set up in 2020 to facilitate equitable and affordable access to Covid-19 health products.