WHO urges 20 most powerful world leaders to end ‘disgraceful’ vaccine inequality
By Team Newsable | First Published Aug 11, 2021, 2:08 PM IST He urged people to tell politicians and business tycoons that it was electorally and financially safe to increase vaccine coverage in poorer nations.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has appealed to the 20 most powerful world leaders to overturn the “disgraceful” global imbalance in access to Covid-19 vaccines to reverse the tide before October, AFP reports stated.
According to AFP, WHO senior advisor to the Director-General, Dr Bruce Aylward mentioned the necessity to "get serious" about the global distribution and administration of Covid-19 vaccine programs.
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The UN health agency has been increasingly infuriated by what it sees as the moral outrage of rich countries hogging vaccine supply while developing nations struggle to immunise their most vulnerable populations.
He urged people to tell politicians and business tycoons that it was electorally and financially safe to increase vaccine coverage in poorer nations.
"Our strong recommendation from a global public health perspective is that we prioritize those populations before we start going into younger populations. In the face of scarce products, we need to look at this from a global perspective," Dr Bruce Aylward said.
(With inputs from agency)
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