WHO chief urges vaccine makers to speed up delivery to Covax
Vaccine-sharing facility has been hit by delivery delays from India’s Serum Institute
17 May 2021 - 22:47
Geneva — The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to make shots available to the Covax vaccine-sharing facility earlier than planned and called on rich nations to share doses to end “vaccine apartheid”.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world has reached a situation of “vaccine apartheid” that is no longer just at risk of that status. “The big problem is a lack of sharing. So the solution is more sharing,” he told a virtual Paris Peace Forum event on Monday. ..
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