{"id":5242,"date":"2020-09-15T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:48:11","slug":"who-head-urges-rich-nations-to-join-vaccine-scheme-by-friday-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/09\/15\/who-head-urges-rich-nations-to-join-vaccine-scheme-by-friday-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO head urges rich nations to join vaccine scheme by Friday deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ZURICH: Countries should join the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) COVAX vaccine facility by a Friday deadline to help ensure that immunizations are fairly and efficiently distributed, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, 92 lower-income nations are seeking assistance via the COVAX facility, part of the WHO\u2019s ACT Accelerator to boost the development of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics to combat the pandemic. Some 80 higher-income nations have expressed interest, but many must still confirm their intention to join by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people in low- and middle-income countries miss out on vaccines, the virus will continue to kill and the economic recovery globally will be delayed,\u201d Tedros told a WHO regional event for Europe that was broadcast virtually.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-inline bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-312359-136544720\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-custom_code \" data-adid=\"312359\" data-type=\"custom_code\"><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"rmpPlayer\"><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The WHO describes COVAX as an \u201cinvaluable insurance policy\u201d for all countries to secure access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines when they are developed and approved. The plan\u2019s coordinators have set a deadline of September 18 for countries signing up to make binding commitments.<\/p>\n<p>COVAX\u2019s aim is to procure and deliver 2 billion doses of approved vaccines by the end of 2021. It currently has nine COVID-19 vaccine candidates in its portfolio employing a range of different technologies and scientific approaches.<\/p>\n<p>A handful are already in late-stage clinical trials and could have data available by year end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: Countries should join the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) COVAX vaccine facility by a Friday deadline to help ensure that immunizations are fairly and efficiently distributed, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. So far, 92 lower-income nations are seeking assistance via the COVAX facility, part of the WHO\u2019s ACT Accelerator to boost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}