As of July 6, over four million people have died worldwide from the COVID pandemic, and there have been 185 million confirmed cases, according to a report issued yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO). Top WHO officials continue polemicizing against the idea that the pandemic is over or at least under control, and that it’s therefore okay to end the lockdowns.
“The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic,” WHO director general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated yesterday. “We have just passed the tragic milestone of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths, which likely underestimates the overall toll,” Tedros told a press conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva. “Vaccine nationalism, where a handful of nations have taken the lion’s share, is morally indefensible and an ineffective public health strategy against a respiratory virus that’s mutating quickly and becoming increasingly effective at moving from human to human,” he said.
“Compounded by fast moving variants and shocking inequity in vaccination, far too many countries in every region of the world are seeing sharp spikes in cases and hospitalization,” he said, adding that “this is leading to an acute shortage of oxygen and treatments, and driving a wave of deaths in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.” He also pointed out that “at this stage in the pandemic, the fact that millions of health and care workers have still not been vaccinated is abhorrent.”
