Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-GeneralTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said on the 4th (local time) that the booster shot should be administered at least at the end of September to resolve the supply imbalance of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) vaccine. Please stop it,” he urged.
“To date, more than 4 billion doses of vaccine have been administered worldwide, and more than 80% of these have gone to upper-middle-income countries, which make up less than half of the world’s population,” he said at a video press briefing on the same day.
He also reiterated the WHO goal in May of having at least 10% of each country’s population vaccinated by the end of September.
“In May, high-income countries got about 50 doses of the vaccine per 100 people, and since then it’s doubled and now it’s almost 100 doses,” he lamented. did.
“I understand every government’s concern to protect their own people from delta mutations,” said Tedros, but “with the most vulnerable people in the world unprotected, countries that have already used most of the world’s vaccine supply will use it more. I can’t accept that,” he said.
“There is an urgent need to shift most vaccines destined for high-income countries to low-income countries,” he said.
In particular, referring to the G20 health ministers meeting scheduled a month later, he said, “It is not an exaggeration to say that the course of the COVID-19 pandemic depends on the leadership of the G20.”
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