{"id":269543,"date":"2020-09-23T00:50:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269543"},"modified":"2020-09-23T00:50:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:50:46","slug":"ph-to-intl-community-ensure-universal-availability-of-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/23\/ph-to-intl-community-ensure-universal-availability-of-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"PH to int’l community: Ensure universal availability of vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Locsin also underscored the relevance of the United Nations, as well as multilateralism, to maintaining peace and security. (File Photo: Teddy Boy Locsin\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday reiterated the need for the “universal availability” of a coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine.<\/p>\n

In a speech at the high-level meeting for the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the Philippines\u2019 top diplomat also urged concerned entities to refrain from using the Covid-19 vaccine as a means to pressure any people, class, or country “to submit to another\u2019s will as the price of the cure.”<\/p>\n

“Withholding the vaccine \u2013 the most effective means of mass salvation \u2013 is a weapon of mass destruction,” Locsin said.<\/p>\n

Globally, 31,174,627 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 962,613 deaths, have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

Based on the latest data from the WHO, 38 candidate vaccines are in evaluation, five of which are in the final stages of clinical trials.<\/p>\n

Locsin also underscored the relevance of the United Nations, as well as multilateralism, to maintaining peace and security.<\/p>\n

“As the only world forum, the UN is the main and only globally credible platform of opportunities for preempting violence and ending it after it\u2019s broken out; for educating ignorance; curing and containing disease; for ameliorating and in time abolishing poverty, ending injustice and extremism \u2013 all enemies of universal values,” he said.<\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier said the Covid-19 pandemic continues to top a long list of global concerns.<\/p>\n

Guterres noted that because the virus \u201crespects no borders,\u201d a vaccine must be seen as \u201ca global public good\u201d, affordable and available to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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