“No country can get rid of the plague with booster doses,” he told the WHO.

A few days before Christmas, the Tetros Adonom Caprese vaccine boosters warned and reminded that “it is not a green light to celebrate as we planned.”

The WHO boss warned Wednesday against the illusion that giving booster doses is enough to get rid of the Covit-19 epidemic.

Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tetros Adanom Gabrias said, “No country can escape the plague with booster shots and reminders are not a green light to celebrate as planned. , A few days before Christmas.

120 countries have already launched a recall campaign

Instead of blindly booster programs ending the epidemic, it is likely to extend the epidemic by reversing the levels available to countries with already high vaccination rates, thus making the virus more likely to spread. It spreads and changes, ”he stressed.

“It is important to remember that the vast majority of hospital admissions and deaths are unvaccinated,” he stressed, adding that we need to be clear about what “works against vaccines”. Delta types such as Omicron.

According to the WHO Expert Group on Immunization Policy (SAGE), at least 126 countries have already provided guidelines for booster doses or additional vaccines (for example children), of which 120 countries have already launched campaigns in this direction. The majority are rich or middle-income countries, while “no country has yet introduced a recall plan,” SAGE said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.