US is among big countries that did not take part in the launch of the WHO initiative.
World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against Covid-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative.
“We are facing a common threat which we can only defeat with a common approach,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he opened the virtual meeting. “We must make sure that people who need them get them,” said Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to Fight on AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. “The lessons from AIDS must be learned. Too many millions died before anti-retroviral medicines were made widely accessible.”
“Although the United States was not in attendance at the meeting in question, there should be no doubt about our continuing determination to lead on global health matters, including the current Covid crisis,” he said by email. Tedros has steadfastly defended the WHO’s handling of the pandemic and repeatedly committed to conducting a post-pandemic evaluation, as the agency does with all crises.
Merkel said: “This concerns a global public good, to produce this vaccine and to distribute it in all parts of the world.”
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
World Bank: Covid-19 could trigger ‘secondary’ global health crisis | Malay MailPARIS, April 24 — Diverting the scarce healthcare resources of developing countries to the rapidly expanding Covid-19 pandemic could see a 45 per cent jump in child and maternal mortality before the end of the year, an international health consortium warned yesterday. Unless poorer nations in...
Read more »
World Bank warns Covid-19 could trigger 'secondary' global health crisisSurvival of pregnant women, children is at great risk due to strained healthcare systems in poorer countries. FMTNews Covid19
Read more »
World leaders due to launch Covid-19 drugs, vaccine plan | Malay MailGENEVA, April 24 — French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will help launch a global initiative on Friday to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against Covid-19 and to share them around the world, the World Health Organization said. The WHO said late on...
Read more »
World leaders to launch WHO Covid-19 plan but US won't take partWHO says the 'landmark collaboration' is to speed up development of safe, effective drugs, tests and vaccines. FMTNews Covid19
Read more »
Two New York cats become first US pets to test positive for Covid-19 | Malay MailNEW YORK, April 23 — Two cats have become the first pet animals in the United States to test positive for Covid-19, caused by the new coronavirus, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The cats, from separate areas of New York state, had mild respiratory illness...
Read more »