Withholding the COVID-19 vaccine — the most effective means of mass salvation — is a weapon of mass destruction, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Tuesday.Locsin made this point in a speech during the virtual High-Level Meeting commemorating the 75th United Nations General Assembly meeting where he raised concerns about making the universal accessibility to potential COVID vaccines without preconditions.
He noted that the UN, being the only globally credible platform, remains the essential organization as the world is grappling to fight the pandemic. “It is by and for all — or no one. COVID-19 reminds us of humanity’s common fate, the perishability of life, progress and social order, and of the imperative of coordinated international action even in concerns we’d always regarded as too small to bother the world with. The virus is tiny,” he said.
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