WHO has warned that despite this year’s vaccines, herd immunity will not be achieved

Despite the fact that many countries administer vaccines against the coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned that collective immunity will not be reached in 2021.

“We will not reach no level of immunity of the population or collective immunity in 2021, ”said Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, at a press conference.

At the same time, he insists on the need to maintain hygiene and removal measuresand the use of chin straps to mitigate the Covid-19 epidemic.

The specialist praised the “incredible progress” made by scientists who have participated in the development of several safe and effective vaccines against the coronavirus in just one year.

But he stressed that the deployment of large-scale vaccination campaigns “takes time.”

“It takes time to increase dose production, It’s not just a question of millions, but here we’re talking about billions “of doses,” he said, and asked the people to be “a little patient.

At the same time, the director of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, spoke of the need for “a collective commitment to be made. in the next 100 days are underway in all countries vaccinations for health workers and high-risk people“.

Swaminathan assured that at some point “vaccines will reach all countries”.

“But in the meantime, we must not forget that there are measures that work,” he recalled.

According to her, hygiene and distancing measures against the coronavirus should remain in force, “At least for the rest of the year.”

The warning was known hours later 90 million coronavirus infections will be passed worldwide, a figure that has doubled over the past 10 weeks, driven by epidemics and the advance of the second wave in various countries.

The data comes from a report from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He also reported that the disease had previously caused more than 1.93 million dead.

The United States remains the country with the most cases and deaths, over 22 million and over 374,000, respectively.

Argentina, meanwhile, accumulates 1,722,217 positives since the first case was detected in March of last year. Deaths from Covid-19 are 44,495.

According to a survey published by the site Our World In Data, so far, they have been applied around the world about 30 million doses different vaccines against the coronavirus. China and the United States applied the most (9 million each), while Argentina is in 16th place with 106,842 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. This is just over a third of the 300 000 which arrived on December 24th.

However, the countries that seem most advanced in the vaccination race are those that have successfully vaccinated a higher percentage of its population. Israel leads with an average of 21 people vaccinated every 100, followed by United Arab Emirates (11), Bahrain (5), Northern Ireland and England (both 4). In Argentina, the rate is 0.24 people vaccinated per 100.

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