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To effectively fight the global pandemic, rich countries like Switzerland should donate their surplus Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries immediately, says Thomas Cueni, president of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations.
“We won’t get out of the pandemic unless everyone is vaccinated,” Cueni told the
SonntagsZeitung newspaper, adding that a problem with distribution – and not production – of the vaccine was preventing poorer countries from inoculating their populations.
Pharmaceutical companies from Europe to Asia are capable of manufacturing 11 billion doses of the Covid vaccine by the end of 2021, said the Swiss national, who sits on the coordination committee of the Covax Initiative aimed at guaranteeing universal access to the vaccine.
WRS Pixabay Rich countries like Switzerland should do more to help poorer countries fight the global pandemic, according to Thomas Cueni, President of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
Cueni says that the only way out of the pandemic is if everyone is vaccinated, adding that problems with distribution, not production, have led to poorer countries being unable to vaccinate their people.
He is urging Switzerland to become more involved with the Covax Initiative, which aims to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world.
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