Iran Press/ Iran news: Meeting with Syed Jaffar Hussain, WHO Representative and Head of Mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran, on Tuesday, Iran's Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi warned over the vaccine apartheid in the world and noted that the world will be secured only through public vaccination against the coronavirus pandemic.
"It is very dangerous to announce that travel visas are issued to some countries only for the sake of Pfizer, Moderna, Astraznka, or Johnson & Johnson vaccines," Raisi said.
The Iranian health official further said that the vaccine apartheid which some powerful countries were escalating was not to the benefit of the world and the health of people except for a few companies that produce such vaccines.
"The world will be coping with the coronavirus until 2022 because up the current year only 40% of the world's population will be vaccinated and safety will be achieved when this figure reaches 70%," he said, stressing that a campaign should be launched against the vaccine apartheid.
Raisi pointed to the WHO motto that said the first vaccine was the best one and pointed out that such measures caused countries to flock to such vaccines and disrupt the vaccination process.
He told the WHO envoy that the body was expected to counter such behaviors rather than keeping silent about them.
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