The United Nations has called for a global effort
to develop and distribute to all at affordable prices vaccines, treatments and
testing kits against the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the world.
The UN Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres,
made the call on Monday at the start of a global pledging conference aimed to
raise at least $8 billion to fight against the virus.
“These new tools will help us to fully control the
pandemic, and must be treated as global public goods available and affordable
for all,” Reuters quoted Guterres as saying.
Also, the Head of the World Health Organisation
(WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reportedly said at the same event that “the
ultimate measure of success will not be how fast we can develop tools. It will
be how equally we can distribute them. None of us can accept a world in which
some people are protected while others remain exposed.”
Meanwhile, the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) had authorised emergency use of Ebola drug 'Remdesivir'
for the treatment of COVID-19 after it scaled through clinical trial in the
country.
Also, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
had last Sunday endorsed the use of Remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19
patients in Nigeria, saying the result of the clinical trial in the US had
revealed its immense benefits.
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