UN chief calls for equal distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Around 6,000 experts from around the world are expected to participate in the World Health Summit, which will continue until Tuesday. Due to the pandemic, it is also held as an online event. The main theme of the Summit is "lessons learnt from COVID-19," such as equal access to vaccines. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the pandemic could be controlled, but "requires far greater supply and sharing of vaccines by governments and manufacturers to the world's most vulnerable countries, driven by a commitment to equity and solidarity." "The damage caused by COVID-19 has underscored the need for stronger global health architecture, and high-level political commitment, through a global compact or agreement to prevent and respond to pandemics," he said. Germany's Minister of Health Jens Spahn stressed that COVID-19 had deeply shaped the lives of all citizens in the world over the last one and a half years. "Let us make use of the lessons we had to learn in a painful way,