Geneva: WHO on Wednesday called a moratorium on the Covid-19 vaccine amplifier shot to at least in September to overcome drastic injustice in the distribution of doses between rich and poor countries.
The head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries and companies that control the supply of doses to immediately change courses and prioritize less rich countries.
The UN health agency has been raging about striking and developing imbalances, noting moral anger.
Israel last month began launching a booster shot for more than 60s, while Germany said on Tuesday it would start offering the third dose of the Pfizer-Bionontech vaccine and modernna from September.
Tedros said at a press conference that he understood why countries wanted to protect their citizens from Virtual Virus Delta which was more transmitting, which was first identified in India.
“But we cannot accept countries that have used most of the supply of global vaccines using even more than that, while the most vulnerable people in the world remain unprotected,” he said.
“We need an urgent reversal, from most vaccines that will go to high-income countries, until the majority goes to low-income countries.” Who wants every country has vaccinated at least 10 percent of the population at the end of September; At least 40 percent at the end of this year, and 70 percent in mid 2022.
At least 4.27 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine have now been given globally, according to the number of AFP.
In countries that are categorized as high income by the World Bank, 101 doses per 100 people have been injected.
That number fell to 1.7 doses per 100 people in 29 lowest income countries.
“Therefore, who called for a booster moratorium to at least the end of September,” Tedro said.
“To make it happen, we need cooperation everyone, especially a handful of countries and companies that control the supply of global vaccines.” Tedro said the G20 country group was the largest manufacturer, consumer and donor Jab Covid-19.
“The Covid-19 Pandemic Course depends on the leadership of the G20,” he said.
He urged vaccine producers to prioritize Covax, a global scheme that tried to secure a vaccine for countries with less financial influences, which have sent only 177 million doses so far.
While the European Union announced Tuesday that half of the population was fully vaccinated, in Africa, that the figure stood less than two percent, WHO’s Covaxa Frontman Bruce Aylward said.
He said the moratorium booster would help to improve “extraordinary and increasing injustice” – said the September target will be missed on the current trajectory.
Aylward says the world is “won’t be able to achieve” out of pandemic if high coverage countries start using the doses available for third or even fourth shots.
Kate O’Brien, the head of the WHO vaccine, added that no convincing picture whether the booster dose was actually needed, given the level of protection that was approved vaccine approved against severe illness, hospitalization and death.
“We don’t have a full range of evidence whether this is needed or not,” he said.