World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on countries to vaccinate 70% of their population against the coronavirus by July 1, 2022, RIA Novosti reports.
Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva on the occasion of the second anniversary of the discovery of COVID-19 that he urges everyone to promise in the New Year to assist in the respective vaccination capaign of 70% of the world’s population by mid-2022.
Of particular concern is the fact that the Omicron variant is more contagious, added the head of the WHO.