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“#UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access<\/strong>”
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UNITED NATIONS \u2014 U.N. Secretary-General<\/a> Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the \u201cwildly uneven and unfair\u201d distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in every nation vaccinated as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

The U.N. chief told a high-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine and declared that \u201cat this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guterres called for an urgent Global Vaccination Plan to bring together those with the power to ensure equitable vaccine distribution \u2014 scientists, vaccine producers and those who can fund the effort.<\/p>\n

And he called on the world\u2019s major economic powers in the Group of 20 to establish an emergency task force to establish a plan and coordinate its implementation and financing. He said the task force should have the capacity \u201cto mobilize the pharmaceutical companies and key industry and logistics actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guterres said Friday\u2019s meeting of the Group of Seven major industrialized nations \u2014 the United States, Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Canada and Italy \u2014 \u201ccan create the momentum to mobilize the necessary financial resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thirteen ministers addressed the virtual council meeting organized by Britain on improving access to COVID-19 vaccinations, including in conflict areas.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus has infected more than 109 million people and killed at least 2.4 million of them. As manufacturers struggle to ramp up production of vaccines, many countries complain of being left out and even rich nations are facing shortages and domestic complaints.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization\u2019s COVAX program, an ambitious project to buy and deliver coronavirus vaccines for the world\u2019s poorest people, has already missed its own goal of beginning coronavirus vaccinations in poor countries at the same time that shots were rolled out in rich countries. WHO says COVAX needs $5 billion in 2021.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the council the Biden administration \u201cwill work with our partners across the globe to expand manufacturing and distribution capacity and to increase access, including to marginalized populations.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden has rejoined the WHO and Blinken announced that by the end of February the United States will pay over $200 million in previously assessed and current obligations to the U.N. agency, which Washington will seek to reform.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s top diplomat said the U.S. also plans to provide \u201csignificant financial support\u201d to COVAX through the GAVI vaccine alliance, and will work to strengthen other multilateral initiatives involved in the global COVID-19 response. He gave no details.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticized the growing \u201cimmunity divide\u201d and called on the world to \u201ccome together to reject `vaccine nationalism,\u2019 promote fair and equitable distribution of vaccines, and, in particular, make them accessible and affordable for developing countries, including those in conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

At WHO\u2019s request, he said, China will contribute 10 million doses of vaccines to COVAX \u201cpreliminarily.\u201d<\/p>\n

China has donated vaccines to 53 developing countries including Somalia, Iraq, South Sudan and Palestine, which is a U.N. observer state. It has also exported vaccines to 22 countries, he said, adding that Beijing has launched research and development cooperation on COVID-19 with more than 10 countries.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also called for a halt to \u201cvaccine nationalism\u201d and encouragement for internationalism. \u201cHoarding superfluous doses will defeat our efforts towards attaining collective health security,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

Jaishankar said India has been at the forefront of the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, initially providing medicine, ventilators and personal protective equipment and now directly sending made-in-India vaccines to 25 nations across the world, with 49 additional countries from Europe and Latin America to Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands slated to receive vaccines \u201cin the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two vaccines, including one developed in India, have been granted emergency authorization, the minister said, and as many as 30 vaccine candidates are in various stages of development.<\/p>\n

Jaishankar announced \u201ca gift of 200,000 doses\u201d of vaccine for about 90,000 U.N. peacekeepers serving in a dozen hotspots around the world.<\/p>\n

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, whose country is currently president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, called for speeding up COVAX and stopping the \u201dundue hoarding\u201d and \u201cmonopolization of vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

He urged that priority be given to countries with limited resources, saying \u201cit\u2019s been pointed out that these countries won\u2019t have generalized access until the middle of 2023 if current trends persist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are seeing is a huge gap,\u201d Ebrard said. \u201cIn fact, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ever seen such a huge division affecting so many in such a short space of time. That is why it\u2019s important to reverse this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He urged the international community not to establish mechanisms that could prevent the speedy delivery of vaccines but instead to strengthen supply chains \u201cthat will promote and guarantee universal access.\u201d<\/p>\n

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, whose country holds the Security Council presidency this month and presided at the virtual meeting, urged the U.N.\u2019s most powerful body to adopt a resolution calling for local cease-fires in conflict zones to allow the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cCease-fires have been used to vaccinate the most vulnerable communities in the past,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t\u2026 We have seen it in the past to deliver polio vaccines to children in Afghanistan, just to take one example.\u201d<\/p>\n

Britain says more than 160 million people are at risk of being excluded from coronavirus vaccinations because they live in countries engulfed in conflict and instability, including Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s U.N. ambassador, Barbara Woodward said: \u201cHumanitarian organizations and U.N. agencies need the full backing of the council to be able to carry out the job we are asking them to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Britain has drafted a Security Council resolution that the U.K. hopes will be adopted in the coming weeks, she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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