The amplifier shot six times more than the Coronavirus vaccine is being managed around the world every day than the primary dose in low-income countries, the Director General of the World Health Organization said on Friday, mentioning the difference “scandal that must stop now.
Official, Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and others regularly criticize rich countries to hoard vaccines while low-income countries do not have enough doses to vaccinate their parents, frontline health care workers and other high-risk groups.
In August, Tedro called for a global moratorium on Booster that he was then extended until the end of the year.
However, countries including Germany, Israel, Canada and the United States have advanced with booster programs.
WHO said in the email that 92 countries have confirmed the program to provide additional doses and that none of them are low income.
About 28.5 million doses of covid vaccines are given every day throughout the world.
According to WHO, about a quarter of them are booster or additional doses.
(Booster is intended to increase protection for those who previously fully vaccinated; additional doses are for immunocompromised people who initially failed to protect them against viruses.) Who contrasted officials at least 6.9 million added a daily dose globally by 1.1 million primary.
Dosage is given in low-income countries.
Only 4.5% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose of Coronavirus vaccine, according to our world in a data project at the University of Oxford, a number dwarfed by interest rates in rich countries.
The United States recently authorized Booster Shots for certain recipients of Pfizer-Bionontech and modern vaccines, and everyone who took Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
This week, Colorado and California announced that they would allow booster shots to all vaccinated adults.
Experts in the United States have been divided into whether the booster is needed for the most healthy Americans, and many say that the original vaccination path continues to offer strong protection against serious illness and hospitalization.
Other experts argue that new data shows that booster ward off reduced protection.
Tedro also warned that access to vaccines was not enough to stop the virus, pointing to the surge in infection and death in Europe which had led the Dutch to plan partial locking, the first class recently in the region that influenced people who were vaccinated and not vaccinated.
“Covid-19 soared in countries with lower vaccination rates in Eastern Europe, but also in countries with some of the highest level of vaccination in the world in Western Europe,” Tedro said.
“This is another reminder, as we have said again and again, the vaccine does not replace the need for other precautions.” Each country must adjust its response to the situation, he said, but also must use steps such as physical distance and masking to help curb transmissions and reduce pressure on the health system.