At Least 115,000 Health Workers Have Died From Covid- WHO Chief

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in World news May 24, 2021

From the start of the pandemic, at least 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 according to the WHO Chief. The observation came from the World Health Organization Chief as he called for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all countries.

At the opening of the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed health workers. He thanked them for the sacrifices they have made around the world to battle the pandemic.

‘’For almost 18 months, health and care workers from all over the world have stood in the breach between life and death. They have saved countless lives and fought for others who, despite their best efforts, slipped away,’’ Tedros said.

He further said that many of the health workers have felt frustrated, helpless, and unprotected since the start of the pandemic. This is because they lacked personal protective equipment and vaccines to offer some shield from the virus. He, however, described the overall inequity in access to vaccines and protective gear.

He called this scandalous and warned that all it is doing is ‘perpetuating the pandemic’.

According to reports, over 75% of all the vaccines have so far gone to only 10 countries.

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