In Flensburg, a city with around 90,000 inhabitants, dozens of cases of mutated coronavirus have been discovered in the past few days, mostly the variant first discovered in Great Britain.
UNITED NATIONS – The UK has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for all warring parties to immediately take an “ongoing humanitarian pause” so that people in conflict areas can be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The proposed resolution reiterates the July 1st call for a “general and immediate cessation of hostilities” in major conflicts from Syria and Yemen to the Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan, and Somalia March 23, 2020 to resolve the coronavirus Fight pandemic.
The draft, received Friday by The Associated Press, “emphasizes the need for solidarity, justice and effectiveness and calls for vaccine doses to be donated from developed countries to low and middle income countries and other countries in need, including through the COVAX Facility . An ambitious World Health Organization project to buy and deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people.
The UK draft stresses that “equitable access to affordable COVID-19 vaccines, certified as safe and effective, is essential to ending the pandemic”.
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