WHO head says vaccines, medicines must be fairly shared to beat Covid-19
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15 May, 2020, 10:05 pm
Last modified: 15 May, 2020, 10:09 pm
“Traditional market models will not deliver at the scale needed to cover the entire globe”
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020/ Reuters
Scientists and researchers are working at "breakneck" speed to find solutions for Covid-19 but the pandemic can only be beaten with equitable distribution of medicines and vaccines, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday.
"Traditional market models will not deliver at the scale needed to cover the entire globe," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva.
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