TASS, January 29. Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has been inoculated with the first dose of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the UN chief announced on his Twitter account.
I was fortunate and grateful to get the first dose of my #COVID19 vaccine today.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) January 28, 2021
We must get to work to make sure the vaccine is available to everyone, everywhere.
With this pandemic, none of us are safe until all of us are safe.
✌ for #Vaccinated pic.twitter.com/OpCVJloY7W
"I was fortunate and grateful to get the first dose of my COVID19 vaccine today," Guterres stated. "We must get to work to make sure the vaccine is available to everyone, everywhere."
"With this pandemic, none of us are safe until all of us are safe," the UN chief added.
According to the US-based Johns Hopkins University, which relies on data from international organizations, federal and local authorities, some 100.9 million people worldwide have been infected with the novel coronavirus and more than 2.1 million died since the outbreak of the pandemic.
In late December 2019, Chinese officials informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus - named COVID-19 by the WHO - have been reported in every corner of the globe.
The United States is currently in the top of the registered COVID-19 cases, which stand at over 26,287,920, while the death rate in the country exceeds 442,630. The country ranks first in the world in terms of the reported coronavirus cases and deaths, caused by COVID-19.