WHO wants moratorium on COVID vaccine booster shots

GENEVA, Switzerland — The WHO on Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September to address the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations.World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged the countries and companies controlling the supply of doses to change course immediately and prioritise less wealthy states.

Tedros told a press conference that he understood why countries wanted to protect their citizens from the more transmissible Delta variant of the virus, which was first identified in India. At least 4.27 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered globally, according to an AFP count.

Tedros said the G20 group of nations were the biggest producers, consumers and donors of COVID-19 jabs.He urged vaccine producers to prioritise Covax, the global scheme which tries to secure vaccines for nations with less financial clout, which has shipped just 177 million doses so far.While half the European Union population has been fully vaccinated, in Africa, that figure stands at less than two percent, said the WHO’s Covax frontman Bruce Aylward.

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