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WHO chief Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus said the pandemic “is a powerful demonstration of just how much we rely on health workers, and how vulnerable we all are when the people who protect our health are themselves unprotected,” after a paper issued by the Organization estimated that some “115,000 health workers may have died from COVID-19 between January 2020 and May this year.”

Speaking at a press conference in Geneva today, Dr. Tedros stressed the need to prioritize health workers for vaccination. He said data from 119 countries suggest that on average, 2 in 5 health and care workers globally are fully vaccinated.

“But of course, that average masks huge differences across regions and economic groupings. In Africa, less than 1 in 10 health workers have been fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, in most high-income countries, more than 80 percent of health workers are fully vaccinated."

The WHO Director-General said more than 10 months since the first vaccines were approved, “the fact that millions of health workers still haven’t been vaccinated is an indictment on the countries and companies that control the global supply of vaccines.”

He said, “High- and upper-middle-income countries have now administered almost half as many booster shots as the total number of vaccines administered in low-income countries.

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