Message by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation
5 August 2021
联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯在新冠病毒疫苗合作国际论坛上的致辞
2021年8月5日
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate our world, claiming more than 4 million lives.
新冠疫情还在破坏我们的世界，已夺走了400多万人的生命。
The remarkable rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines offers great hope.
新冠疫苗的快速发展为我们带来了巨大的希望。
But these vaccines need to reach everyone, everywhere as quickly as possible.
但这些疫苗需要尽快送达每个角落的每个人。
This is a matter of fairness and justice – but it is also critical to avoid the emergence of further variants that can resist the current vaccines and undermine national vaccination efforts.
Overall, we need more than 11 billion doses to vaccinate 70 percent of the global population – a key threshold to ending the acute phase of this pandemic.
This will take the largest public health effort in history.
它将需要历史上最大的公共卫生努力。
The world needs a Global Vaccine Plan to at least double production of vaccines and ensure equitable distribution, using COVAX as the platform. We also need an Emergency Task Force – at the G20 level – to coordinate its implementation.
The doubling of manufacturing capacity requires a much greater sharing of technology and know-how, strengthening and building local production capacities around the world and addressing supply chain bottlenecks.
制造能力翻番需要更多地分享技术和方法，加强和建设世界各地的本土生产能力，并解决供应链瓶颈。
This first meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation is a critical opportunity to bring together countries with vaccine production capacities, pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers to advance global cooperation on vaccines.
I thank the Government of China for its leadership to address equitable access to vaccines for developing countries – the most pressing issue of our times.