Geneva: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has as soon as once more reiterated that the Covid-19 pandemic “is much from over”. “… the pandemic is much from over. And at the same time as we proceed to combat it, we face the duty of restoring important well being companies, with 90 per cent of member states reporting disruption to a number of important well being companies,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated on Monday.
Addressing the seventy fifth World Health Assembly, Ghebreyesus stated the Covid-19 pandemic had demonstrated why the world wanted the WHO, Xinhua information company reported.
“We want a stronger and sustainably financed WHO, on the heart of the worldwide well being safety structure,” he stated on the annual meeting. “In methods small and enormous, seen and unseen, I’m proud to say that this group is making a distinction,” he stated.
The WHO was nonetheless “far behind” to see 1 billion extra individuals benefitting from common well being protection by subsequent yr. Before the pandemic, the WHO estimated that solely 270 million extra individuals can be lined by 2023 — a shortfall of 730 million individuals towards the goal of 1 billion.
