Business Wire

WORLD-GOVERNMENT-SUMMIT

11.3.2021 11:02:12 CET | Business Wire | Press release

Share
Global Immunization Possible by 2022 With Fair Vaccine Distribution, Says WHO COVID-19 Special Envoy

The World Government Summit Dialogues saw world leaders outline solutions to humanity’s most urgent challenges during the virtual event on 9-10 March.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210311005126/en/

Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy on COVID-19 to the World Health Organization (WHO), claimed the unfair weighting of vaccine access in favour of rich countries will delay the global recovery from the healthcare and economic crises, potentially beyond 2022.

“While the COVAX effort is commendable, if a few countries take the majority of the supplies and leave minimal cash and vaccine supplies behind for the rest, this is not ethical,” Dr. Nabarro said.

The current “free-for-all” approach to vaccine supplies with “a small number of nations trying to outbid one another”, doesn’t work. But “fair access to vaccine for everybody, the objective for immunization, at least by 2022, is a reasonable prospect,” he said.

Earlier, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, said: “Vaccine nationalism will only prolong the pandemic, and the human and economic suffering that goes with it. Health must be seen not as a cost to be contained but as an investment in productive and resilient populations, and a key to sustainable development.”

Later, the Right Honourable Lord Martin Rees, President, the Royal Society, said reasons to study and explore other planets must be carefully considered. He claimed: “The idea of Elon Musk to have a million people settle on Mars is a dangerous delusion. Living on Mars is no better than living on the South Pole or the tip of Mount Everest.

“The only reason for humans to go to space would be for adventure. To live on Mars is not going to be easy. Mars has a hostile environment.”

His thoughts were backed-up by the eminent astrophysicist, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who said: “To ship a billion people to another planet to help them survive a catastrophe on earth seems unrealistic.”

The World Government Summit Dialogues convened leaders from around the world virtually to predict the trends that will shape the future, post-pandemic society. For more details about the event, visit: https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/

*Source: AETOSWire

Link:

ClickThru

About Business Wire

Business Wire
Business Wire
101 California Street, 20th Floor
CA 94111 San Francisco

http://businesswire.com

Subscribe to releases from Business Wire

Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Latest releases from Business Wire

Logistics Reply named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Warehouse Management for Retail and Manufacturing9.11.2026 10:00:00 CET | Press release

Logistics Reply, the Reply Group company specialised in software solutions for supply chain execution and warehouse management, has been positioned in the Leaders Category of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Warehouse Management for Retail 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53701926, October 2026) as well as in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Warehouse Management for Manufacturing 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53013526, October 2026). The reports evaluate vendors based on strategy and product capabilities, looking at both quantitative and qualitative criteria. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261109197861/en/ Logistics Reply, the Reply Group company specialised in software solutions for supply chain execution and warehouse management, has been positioned in the Leaders Category of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Warehouse Management for Retail and Manufacturing. LEA ReplyTM is Logistics Reply’s cloud-native warehouse

SWISSto12 passes critical design review of dual-band 5G antennas for UNIVITY satellites9.11.2026 09:00:00 CET | Press release

The milestone clears the way for flight hardware production, bringing UNIVITY closer to delivering both broadband and direct-to-device 5G services from a single satellite architecture. SWISSto12, a leading enabler of the new space economy, today announced it has passed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the S- and Ka-band phased array antennas for UNIVITY’s 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) demonstration satellites. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261109823601/en/ SWISSto12's S- and Ka-band phased array antennas pass Critical Design Review SWISSto12 is developing two active antennas for UNIVITY: an S-band direct radiating array (DRA) for direct-to-device services, connecting standard 5G phones straight to the satellite, and a Ka-band DRA operating at 26 GHz for broadband services and feeder links. Both are built for 5G NTN applications, allowing one single satellite to carry both broadband and direct-to-devic

Arrow Electronics lancerer en ny forretning, Capstone, for at øge fokus på IP&E-løsninger9.11.2026 07:00:00 CET | Pressemeddelelse

Arrow præsenterer den nye forretning på electronica-messen i München (10.-13. nov) Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) annoncerede i dag lanceringen af Capstone, en global forretning dedikeret til interconnect, passiver og elektromekaniske (IP&E) produkter, løsninger og services. Med Capstone skaber Arrow en fokuseret og specialiseret go-to-market-tilgang for IP&E idet det teknologisegment bliver mere kritisk for systemets ydeevne, pålidelighed og forsynings sikkerhed. Capstone er designet til at gøre IP&E nem at specificere, indkøbe og skalere. Kunder vil få fordelen ved dedikeret IP&E ressourcer, hurtig beslutningstagning og bred teknisk viden, både på on-board og off-board produkter. Med et fokuseret brand kan Capstone tilbyde kunderne mere målrettet rådgivning og støtte gennem hele processen – fra de første designovervejelser til den færdige produktion. Det giver kunderne et bedre grundlag for at træffe de rigtige beslutninger, mindske risikoen undervejs og skabe de bedste skalerbar

Avanzanite Announces Exclusive Licence Agreement to Commercialise Zemcelpro® in Europe9.11.2026 07:00:00 CET | Press release

Zemcelpro is authorised in the European Union for eligible adults with blood cancers who need an allogeneic stem cell transplant and have no other suitable donor cells available. Avanzanite secures exclusive commercialisation rights to Zemcelpro across 32 countries covering the European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland including potential indication expansion. Avanzanite will become the EU marketing authorisation holder following regulatory transfer and support a planned Phase 3 trial. Zemcelpro becomes Avanzanite’s fifth rare disease launch and first advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP). Avanzanite Bioscience B.V. (“Avanzanite” or “Company”) a European pharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases, today announced an exclusive licence agreement with Montreal-based Cordex Biologics, an ExCellThera company (“ExCellThera”), a leader in enhanced blood stem cell therapies, to commercialise Zemcelpro®. Zemcelpro received conditional marketing authorisation from the European Commissi

GigaDevice to Showcase Intelligent Embedded Solutions at electronica 20269.11.2026 07:00:00 CET | Press release

Experience Intelligent Motion Through Real-World Applications in Robotics, Industrial, Automotive, and Computing GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor company specializing in Flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analog products, will showcase its latest embedded technologies and application-oriented solutions at electronica 2026. As the company continues to strengthen its presence in Europe, the exhibition provides an opportunity to engage with regional customers and partners and demonstrate solutions addressing evolving needs across industrial automation, automotive electronics, and intelligent computing. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261108191898/en/ Experience Intelligent Motion at Electronica Munich “Europe is an important market for GigaDevice, with strong demand for innovation across industrial automation and automotive electronics,” said Dr. Reiner Jumpertz, Vice President and Gene

In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.

Visit our pressroom
World GlobeA line styled icon from Orion Icon Library.HiddenA line styled icon from Orion Icon Library.Eye