‘More people will die’: Bill Gates’ warning to wealthy countries amid pandemic

This Friday, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Melissa and Bill Gates Foundation, invite him rich countries they have excellent vaccines against coronavirus a “Share them with those who don’t have them”. The tycoon’s call came during the World Health Summit (World Health Summit) in Rome, Italy, in which members of the G20.

The international forum invited to participate political leaders of the top 20 economies in the world and business leaders to share “Lessons and experiences” learned in the context of the current pandemic hitting the world, in order to improve responses to future health crises.

Thus, the philanthropist clearly expressed his position on the situation suffered by the most vulnerable countries who have less access to immunization against Covid19. “We have been in a pandemic for over a year and we have made extraordinary progress scientist on vaccines, but now the goal is that everyone can benefit from it of it, ”Gates said.

In this sense, he acknowledged that although many countries have already made donations to the most vulnerable, this “it was not enough to control Covid-19 ″, because in some countries there are still high peaks of contagion of the disease.

“We must guarantee equal access to the vaccine. More than 80% of the first doses went to prosperous countries, but if we don’t close this big hole, more people will die, ”he said bluntly during his speech.

Gates also considered that for the next three or four months, United States and other developed countries will begin to have a “Excess” of vaccines, so that will allow, he thought, to share them developing countries, who do not yet have sufficient quantities to immunize their populations.

During the forum coordinated by the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, World leaders such as the presidents of China, India, France and South Africa, with directors of multinational organizations and the North American philanthropist. For United States, the person in charge of intervening was the vice-president Kamala Harris.

With information from ANSA.

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