Erdoğan: Support to disadvantaged groups to access to vaccines is "moral imperative"
Delivering a speech during the Global COVID-19 Summit on Tuesday, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stressed in his remarks: "Providing support to disadvantaged groups to access to vaccines, treatment and protection tools is a moral imperative."
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- Published Date: 04:20 | 28 September 2021
- Modified Date: 07:06 | 28 September 2021
Turkey is ready to take part in post-pandemic efforts for a stronger world in all aspects, the Turkish president said in a statement.
"A new pandemic is not a possibility, it is only a matter of time," Erdoğan underlined in a video message. "Therefore, eliminating the deficiencies identified is not an option but a political responsibility."
"It is our duty to future generations to make the multilateral system robust and prepared against global health threats in the light of the lessons learned from the (COVID-19) pandemic," he concluded.
Since December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 4.75 million lives in at least 192 countries and regions, with more than 232.4 million cases reported worldwide, according to the US-based Johns Hopkins University.
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