“We will not be able to achieve 60% of our population fully immunised if we do not fully explore and deploy the power of partnership, the power of cooperation, and the power of solidarity” … “We all have acknowledged now that vaccines are the only solution for us to get out of this pandemic collectively.
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“大家现在已看到，疫苗是我们共同摆脱这场大流行疫情的唯一解决办法。
That has to be done quickly.”
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联合国副秘书长兼非洲经济委员会执行秘书维拉·松圭博士
Dr Vera Songwe, UN Under- Secretary- General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission For Africa
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“非洲大陆每封锁一个月，就会损失290亿美元的产量。
“For every one month of lockdowns in the continent cost us $29 billion of production that was lost.
For [the African continent], when we say that COVID-19 is an economic issue and we need to respond to it, to be able to recover and reset our economies, it is real.
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而为此，我们需要资金供应，需要了解如何能整合全球金融结构，以确保我们能够真正应对这场危机”。
And for that we need financing and we need to see how we can bring together global financial structures to ensure that we can actually respond to this crisis”.
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“我们知道，匮乏意味着成本增加，我们这个大陆今天负担不起这种匮乏”。
“We know that scarcity means increased cost, and we cannot afford today as a continent that kind of scarcity.”
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非洲进出口银行（Afreximbank）总裁兼董事会主席Benedict Oramah教授
Professor Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Afreximbank
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“非洲不想在疫苗方面再次排在最后，因为众所周知，经济复苏意味着病毒得到控制”。
“Africa did not want to once again be at the bottom of queue in regard to vaccines because it was well known to everybody that economy recovery meant bringing the virus under control.”
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“我们必须这样做，原因很简单，各国希望我们确保不会失败，否则会使我们难以迅速恢复”。
“It is important that we do this for the simple reason that countries want us to make sure that we do not fail, and make it difficult for us to recover quickly.”