WHO's Tedros urges countries and drug makers to get more vaccine to poorer countries
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24 May, 2021, 04:50 pm
Last modified: 24 May, 2021, 04:54 pm
Tedros also called on vaccine manufacturers to give COVAX the first right of refusal on new volumes of vaccines, or to commit 50% of their volumes to COVAX this year
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Photo: BSS/AFP
The Covid-19 pandemic is being perpetuated by a "scandalous inequity" in vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressing its annual ministerial assembly, urged countries to donate vaccine doses to the COVAX mechanism to inoculate 10% of populations of all countries by September, and 30% by year-end.
Tedros also called on vaccine manufacturers to give COVAX the first right of refusal on new volumes of vaccines, or to commit 50% of their volumes to COVAX this year.
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