“The projection came just a week after the WHO reported 200 million Covid cases worldwide and six months after the globe surpassed 100 million cases”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing Wednesday. “With four variants of concern on the WHO’s radar — including the surging, highly transmissible delta variant — Tedros said the total amount of unreported Covid cases makes the real tally “much higher” than what’s reported.”
“We are all in this together,” he said. “But the world is not acting like it.”
Tedros previously issued a target to vaccinate 10% of the world’s population by the end of September and 40% by December. The WHO has estimated that under 2% of Africa’s population is fully vaccinated, and some nations on the continent have yet to begin administering vaccinations.
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“Whether we reach 300 million and how fast we get there depends on all of us,” Tedros said. WHO officials expressed an urgent need yesterday for $7.7 billion in funding to help distribute vaccines, oxygen, and medical care in low-income countries.
