Countries are invited to turn up for the production of protective equipment to limit the infection with the corona virus.
the Lack of protective equipment such as mundbind is an acute threat to efforts to save lives during the coronaudbruddet.
so says the head of the world health organisation, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a press conference Friday.
– A persistent lack of personal protective equipment (ppe) is now one of the most urgent threats to our common effort to save lives.
– health care Professionals in low – and middle-income countries have the right to the same protection as those in the richest countries, he says.
the Head of the WHO tells that the organization has sent almost two million protective equipment of various kinds to 74 countries.
The same amount is on the way to additional 60 countries.
– This problem can only be solved by international cooperation and solidarity, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
the WHO has called on the G20 countries to exploit their industries to produce the equipment that is necessary to reduce the infection with corona virus.
the G20 includes the world’s leading industrialised countries and economies.
the Lack of protective equipment is a known problem in the healthcare system in Denmark and is the latest time it has been pointed out by the authorities.
this is Why many Danish companies have already converted their production in order, among other things, produce mundbind and håndsprit.
During the press conference, warns the head of the WHO in addition to a around the world trying to deal with Covid-19 with the drugs, which have not yet been shown to be active against the disease.
Covid-19 is the disease that follows infection with the coronavirus.
to date, the outbreak of the coronavirus claimed around 25,000 lives worldwide.
It shows the most recent data from the u.s. Johns Hopkins University.
the Worst affected are Italy, which has so far registered 8215 died. In Spain there are 4858 deaths among persons who were confirmed infected with the coronavirus, and in China, the figure is 3296.
Europe is generally the hardest hit part of the world.
/ritzau/AFP
