On Wednesday, the World Health Organization asked the wealthy nations to hold off the distribution of Covid booster shots, citing the reason for vaccine inequity around the world.
The WHO said the halt should last at least two months to give every nation around the world an opportunity to vaccinate at least 10% of the population by the end of September.
“We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries, to the majority going to low-income countries,” WHO’s Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing.
The request by WHO is a part of Ghebreyesus’ aim of vaccinating 40% of the world’s population by the month of December, mentions his senior advisor, Dr. Bruce Aylward,
“The big picture here is as a policy not to be moving forward with boosters until we get the whole world at a point where the older populations, people with comorbidities, people who are working at the front lines, are all protected to the degree possible with vaccines,” Aylward said at the briefing.
Experts say that vaccinating all the population in the world is most critical for ending the coronavirus pandemic completely.
