Blanchet Karl, Mallard Grégoire, Moret Erica, Sun Jin
Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Confl Health. 2021 Sep 17;15(1):69. doi: 10.1186/s13031-021-00404-2.
COVAX, the global initiative on COVID-19 vaccines, has set the target of achieving a COVID-19 vaccination coverage of up to 30% of the population of 135 countries in 2 years. Here, we argue that COVAX should anticipate important and unforeseen challenges with regard to sanctioned countries. For those, COVAX needs to provide a higher percentage of the vaccines. Otherwise, the problems of vaccination will linger, risking the advent of new variants and preventing an effective global response in reigning the pandemic under control.
新冠疫苗全球获取机制（COVAX）是一项关于新冠病毒疫苗的全球倡议，其设定的目标是在两年内使135个国家的新冠疫苗接种覆盖率达到其人口的30%。在此，我们认为，COVAX应预见到针对受制裁国家的重大且不可预见的挑战。对于这些国家，COVAX需要提供更高比例的疫苗。否则，疫苗接种问题将持续存在，有可能出现新的变种，并阻碍全球有效应对疫情，无法控制疫情。
