WHO / TEDROS MULLER COVID-19 VACCINE INEQUITY
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STORY: WHO / TEDROS MULLER COVID-19 VACCINE INEQUITY
TRT: 2:29
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: GERMAN /ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 29 MARCH 2021, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1.Wide shot, Muller and Tedros at the podium in press room
2.SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Gerd Müller, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany:
"COVID is a global pandemic and therefore a global and united response is necessary. We can only win the fight against this virus if we win it globally otherwise, we will lose. The COVID pandemic is a ‘poli-pandemic’ and I say this as the German Development Minister. This is a health crisis with 3 million deaths worldwide, it is however also a dramatic economic and financial crisis that will cause hunger and poverty in many developing countries worldwide."
3.Wide shot, Muller and Tedros at the podium in press room
4.SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Gerd Müller, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany:
"We can’t just look at ourselves now and take care of ourselves in Europe and in the richer parts of the world. It is shocking when Director-General Tedros says that 70 percent fo the vaccine doses that are available today are used in 10 countries worldwide and those are the richest countries worldwide. That is not the kind of solidarity that will stop this virus."
5.Wide shot, Muller and Tedros at the podium in press room
6.SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
"And COVID-19 vaccines are now rolling out around the world and 177 countries have started vaccination. But distribution is still highly unequal, as the minister said. And too many health workers and priority groups are still waiting to be vaccinated in too many places. As we speak, 36 countries want to start but do not have access to vaccines yet."
7.Wide shot, Muller and Tedros at the podium in press room
8.SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
"Continued vaccine inequity is self-defeating, as it could see variants of concern gain the upper hand and slow the global economic recovery."
9.Med shot, WHO Seal on a wall
"Continued vaccine inequity is self-defeating, as it could see variants of concern gain the upper hand and slow the global economic recovery," WHO’s chief Dr Tedros said at a joint press conference with the German development minister Dr Muller who called for “a global and united response” to the pandemic.
Speaking today (29 Mar) at a WHO press conference in Geneva, Dr Gerd Müller, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany said "COVID is a global pandemic and therefore a global and united response is necessary. We can only win the fight against this virus if we win it globally otherwise, we will lose.”
Calling the COVID-19 pandemic a ‘poli-pandemic’, the german minister “this is a health crisis with 3 million deaths worldwide, it is however also a dramatic economic and financial crisis that will cause hunger and poverty in many developing countries worldwide."
Dr Muller also said "we can’t just look at ourselves now and take care of ourselves in Europe and in the richer parts of the world. It is shocking when Director-General Tedros says that 70 percent fo the vaccine doses that are available today are used in 10 countries worldwide and those are the richest countries worldwide. That is not the kind of solidarity that will stop this virus."
On his part, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said the COVID-19 vaccine distribution “is still highly unequal,” adding that “too many health workers and priority groups are still waiting to be vaccinated in too many places.”
“As we speak, 36 countries want to start but do not have access to vaccines yet," Dr Tedros said, underlining that "continued vaccine inequity is self-defeating, as it could see variants of concern gain the upper hand and slow the global economic recovery."