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'BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS' IF WORLD STEPS BACK ON TACKLING COVID NOW, WHO OFFICIAL
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By Jennifer Rigby
September 23, 20228:17 AM HSTUpdated 2 years ago
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LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they
should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World Health
Organization official told Reuters.
In an interview, WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward warned that richer nations
must not step back from tackling COVID-19 as a global problem now, ahead of
future potential waves of infection.
In the last few weeks, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the
end of the pandemic was in sight, and U.S President Joe Biden said the pandemic
was over.
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"When I hear them say, 'Well, we're so comfortable here,' it's like, 'Great, now
you can really help us get the rest of the world done'," said Aylward.
Aylward said that the group he co-ordinates, which focuses on equitable access
to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and tests worldwide, is not yet ready to move
out of the emergency phase of tackling the pandemic and that countries need to
be ready and have treatments in place for any further waves of infection.
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"If you go to sleep right now and this wave hits us in three months... God -
blood on your hands," he said.
He also stressed that Biden had a point domestically as the United States has
good access to all COVID tools. It has also not cut its global commitment to
fighting COVID, he added.
Aylward co-ordinates the ACT-Accelerator, a partnership between WHO and other
global health bodies to help poorer countries access COVID-19 tools. The effort,
which includes the vaccine-focused COVAX, has reached billions of people
worldwide but has faced criticism for not acting quickly enough. There had been
some speculation that the effort may wind up this autumn, but Aylward said it
was simply changing its focus as the pandemic changes.

Over the next six months, the partnership will aim particularly at delivering
vaccines to the roughly one quarter of the world's health care workers and
elderly who have still not had a shot, as well as on improving access to
test-and-treat particularly with Pfizer's Paxlovid, he said.
It will also look to the future as COVID is "here to stay", and unless systems
are put in place, support will collapse once other industrialised nations also
think the pandemic is over, said Aylward.

The initiative already has an $11 billion gap in its budget, with most of its
available $5.7 billion in funding pledged towards vaccines rather than tests or
treatments.

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pandemics to the rise of obesity worldwide. Since joining the news agency in
2022, her award-winning work includes coverage of gender-affirming care for
adolescents in the UK and a global investigation with colleagues into how
contaminated cough syrup killed hundreds of children in Africa and Asia. She
previously worked at the Telegraph newspaper and Channel 4 News in the UK, and
spent time as a freelancer in Myanmar and the Czech Republic.

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