They plan to vaccinate a billion in poor countries

Dpa, Afp and Ap

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday April 9, 2022, p. eleven

Berlin. The Global Access Fund for covid-19 Covax Vaccines will be able to apply doses to one billion more people in the 92 poorest countries in the world, thanks to a donor conference organized by Germany, which confirmed support of 4.8 billion dollars that will be invested in logistics, purchase of syringes and other materials.

We must and can deal with more than one crisis simultaneously. The pandemic will be over when it has been overcome everywheresaid German Development Minister Svenja Schulze.

That is why we work hard on our common goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the population in all countries.he pointed.

Germany will grant 400 million euros for Covax in 92 countries as well as 224 million for logistics in nations where it has development aid projects. In addition, a new prevention instrumentwhich will seek to ensure that in the event of new and dangerous variants of the virus, developing countries have rapid and equitable access to new vaccines.

The development aid organization One praised the outcome of this virtual meeting. The world community today carried out its tasks. Confirmed media generate hope: with today’s summit the ambitious goal of achieving at least 70 percent of the population immunized in all countries of the world by mid-year is closerwrote Stephan Exo-Kreischer, director of One Deutschland.

A part of the confirmations (one billion dollars) were guaranteed in the form of loans by multilateral development banks.

On the other hand, Chinese President Xi Jinping praised the strategy of zero covid of the country, at a time when the city of Shanghai is still confined with a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of SARS-CoV-2 detection tests. The city is struggling to get meat, rice and other supplies as most of its 25 million people are confined as the government tries to contain an outbreak of the virus.

Meanwhile, the United States and Germany could register a rebound in the fall, the respective authorities warned.