The Covid-19 pandemic has caused one million deaths worldwide since January, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Thursday (25). The entity asked governments to accelerate the vaccination of their populations.
“We have passed the tragic milestone of one million deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning of the year,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference.
The head of the UN health agency called on governments of all countries to redouble their efforts to vaccinate all health workers, the elderly and other especially exposed or vulnerable groups, to achieve 70% vaccination coverage for the entire population.
In January of this year, the WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and their partners created the Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Alliance, with the aim of facilitating the distribution of doses in 34 countries where the vaccination coverage is less than 10%, of which all but six are in Africa.
The WHO chief warned that a third of the world’s population is still unvaccinated, including two-thirds of healthcare workers and three-quarters of the elderly in low-income countries.
According to the agency’s latest statistics, the Covid pandemic is responsible for 6.45 million deaths worldwide since the first cases emerged in late 2019 in China.
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