WHO chief says over $30 billion needed to develop COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments

While dressing ACT Accelerator launch on June 26, WHO Director-General Tedros ham Ghebreyesus said that a global initiative to speed up development and production of COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments will require more than $30 billion over next year. potentially dely virus has been spreing rapidly across globe and has infected over 9.5 million people. 

While researchers and scientists around world are still trying to find a cure, Tedros called for an ‘active collaboration’ between government, industry, health organisations, civil society organisations, and communities. WHO chief called vaccines, diagstics and rapeutics a ‘vital tool’; however, he also ded that y will truly be effective if y get ministered with ‘solidarity’. 

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Tedros also ted that world needs effective vaccines in unprecedented quantities and at unprecedented speed in a bid to bring COVID-19 under control. He furr said that ‘all people’ should have access to all tools to ‘prevent, detect and treat’ vel coronavirus.

WHO chief also believes that access to Tools Accelerator will end pandemic faster by ensuring that tools developed are allocated rationally and equitably around world. 

Tedros said, “ principle of equitable access is a simple thing to say, but a complicated thing to implement – it requires active collaboration between governments, industry, health organisations, civil society organizations, and communities”. 

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COVID-19 outbreak 

Meanwhile, COVID-19, which originated in China in December 2019, has w claimed over 489,000 lives worldwide as of June 26. According to tally by Johns Hopkins University, pandemic has w spre to 188 countries and territories and has infected more than 9.5 million people.

Out of total infections, more than two million have recovered but easily spre virus is continuing to disrupt many lives. Major cities have been put under lockdown in almost all countries and global ecomy is struggling. 

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