The World Health Organization (WHO) said there is a severe shortage of coronavirus vaccines in poor countries. This is a global failure, WHO officials said.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation in Africa is as dangerous as the spread of the most contagious variant across the globe, Delta. Last week in Africa there was a 40 per cent increase in the number of infections and deaths compared to a week earlier.
“Our world is failing,” he said. “The problem is the supply, just give us the vaccines,” Ghebreyesus told a news conference on Friday (June 25th).
COVAX, a global vaccine distribution program in poor countries led jointly by the vaccine alliance GAVI and WHO, has distributed 90 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 132 countries. Distribution has been under way since February, but has faced supply problems since India suspended vaccine exports.
