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“The only way out of a worldwide pandemic and out of this unjust and immoral position is through a global vaccination campaign,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated.
The Secretary General was speaking at a UN headquarters in New York meeting of Foreign Ministers from the Group of 77 (G77) and China, when he claimed the Covid-19 pandemic “continues to wreak damage” on developed and developing countries alike.
He went on to say that the UN supports the World Health Organization’s vaccination policy, which aims to get vaccines into the hands of 40% of people in all countries by the end of 2021 and 70% by the middle of 2022.
“Everyone, everywhere,” the top UN official urged, pleading for assistance for the ACT-accelerator and the Covax facility.
The global economy is predicted to rise 5.9% in 2021, but the recovery will be uneven, according to Guterres.
This does not surprise him, according to the Xinhua news agency, when developed economies invest 28 percent of their GDP in recovery, middle income countries invest 6%, and least developed countries invest only 1.8 percent.
According to the International Monetary Fund, cumulative economic growth per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa will be 75% lower than the rest of the globe during the next five years.
“Because growth rates are expected to decline in 2022, the gap could spread much further. Borrowing and debt payments could become more expensive as inflation rises.” His worry was communicated.
Climate change, inequality, and the development of new technologies were all mentioned by the UN Secretary-General, who called for a “quantum leap in unity and solidarity” to solve these global issues.
The Secretary General emphasised the importance of multilateralism and the UN’s involvement throughout the pandemic.
For 139 nations and territories, UN country teams published socioeconomic response strategies. Another $2 billion was mobilised after over $3 billion was reallocated to prioritise emergency relief.
Recent reforms, according to the Secretary General, allowed the world organisation to quickly adapt and respond.
“To make collective decisions on the global challenges we confront, such as the climate disaster, our deadly war on environment, unsustainable levels of inequality, and the unregulated development of new technologies,” he continued, “we need a quantum leap in unity and solidarity.”
