On the 18th local time, the 2022 World Economic Forum discussed the issue of vaccine fairness by video conference. In his speech, Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme, said that the coronavirus may eventually become part of the planet's ecosystem, while also calling for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Michael Ryan, WHO Health Emergencies Programme Leader: We are not going to eliminate COVID-19 this year. People may never be able to eliminate COVID-19. What we can end is a public health emergency.
Michael Ryan also said that what people are doing now is to reduce the incidence and maximize the vaccination of all people, which requires a more equitable distribution of vaccines. To date, more than half of the world's population has received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, but in the African region, that number is only 7 percent.
The weekly epidemiological report on new crown pneumonia released by the WHO on the 18th pointed out that last week, that is, from January 10 to 16, the number of new confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in the world exceeded 18 million, an increase of 20% over the previous week, and the number of new confirmed cases in some countries seems to have reached a peak. With the exception of the African region, there was an increase in new confirmed cases in all regions, with the largest increase in the South-East Asia region, which increased by 145% from the previous week. The five countries that reported the most cases last week were the United States, France, India, Italy and the United Kingdom.
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(Edited by Yu Ding)