Covid, WHO: “Another 100,000 dead by 8 August”

“More than 100,000 people will die from covid by August 8″. It is a passage from the intervention of the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at the 138th session of the International Olympic Committee (CIO). “When will this pandemic end? The pandemic is proof. And the world is failing. Read also More than 4 million people have died and others continue to die. Already this year the number of deaths is more than double the total last year. As I make these observations, more than 100 people will lose their lives due to Covid-19. And when the Olympic flame goes out on August 8, more than 100,000 people will die. Millions of survivors continue to suffer from the long-term health consequences of Covid, which we are still studying. ” pandemic and 7 months after the approval of the first vaccines, we are now in the early stages of another wave of infections and deaths. This is tragic. How can this be? Vaccines weren’t designed to put out the pandemic? Yes, and in countries with more vaccines “doses” are helping to do so. But if you throw water on only one part of a hellfire, the rest will continue to burn. And the flames can start an even more violent fire somewhere else. The threat isn’t over anywhere until it’s over everywhere. Anyone who thinks the pandemic is over because where they live it is, they live in fool’s paradise. “” 75% of vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries. In countries low income, sol o 1% of people have received at least one dose, compared to more than half of people in high-income countries.Some of the wealthier countries are now talking about a third booster dose for their populations, while health professionals, seniors and other fragile groups in the rest of the world continue to do without it, “he says.” The global inability to share vaccines, tests and treatments, including oxygen, is fueling a two-track pandemic: the rich are opening up , while the poor are closing down. This is not just a moral outrage; it is also counterproductive from an epidemiological and economic point of view. The longer this discrepancy persists, the longer the pandemic will drag on, and so will the social and economic turmoil associated with it. The greater the transmission of the virus, the more variants will emerge with the potential to be even more dangerous than the Delta variant that is causing such devastation now. And the more variants circulating, the greater the likelihood that one of them will escape vaccines and bring us all back to square one. None of us are safe until we are all safe, ”he says again.