WHO "코로나19 백신 공공재 되면 경제회복 빨라질 것"<br /><br />The World Health Organization says the global economy will recover faster from the COVID-19 pandemic if a vaccine once ready is shared fairly with everyone around the world.<br />Kim Dami has more.<br />A global economic recovery will speed up, but only if a COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good.<br />This according to the WHO Director General,... who says vaccine nationalism helps no one.<br />"Vaccine nationalism is not good. It will not help us. When we say it should be a global public good, it’s not sharing for the sake of sharing. It's only because it has advantages. For the world to recover faster, it has to recover together."<br />While the Director General says ensuring the safety and efficacy of vaccine is a top priority, U.S. President Donald Trump says a COVID-19 vaccine may be ready right around the November 3rd Election Day.<br />In a radio interview Thursday, Trump expressed confidence that it may even be possible before November.<br />His comments differ from health experts who have repeatedly set the most likely date to be by the end of the year or early next year.<br />While hopes for a successful vaccine remain high globally, the world has reached yet another grim COVID-19 milestone,... the total number of cases topping 19 million as of Thursday.<br />This is comes just about seven months after the WHO reported the very first case on the very last day of 2019.<br />The death toll is at more than 711-thousand 600.<br />And after more than four months, the U.S. State Department on Thursday lifted its advisory warning its citizens against traveling overseas.<br />Ending the highest level of travel advisory on Thursday, the State Department said health and safety conditions are improving in some countries and possibly deteriorating in others.<br />Kim Dami, Arirang News.<br />And the U.S. State Department also placed all of South Korea under the second-top tier of "reconsider travel" advisory.<br />This, after Washington lowered its travel advisory for the city of Daegu from "do-not-travel" list following the deadly outbreak of COVID-19 in that city in the earlier part of the pandemic.<br />
