Global failure to share vaccines equitably impacting world's most vulnerable countries: WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros on Friday pointed out the "global failure to share vaccines equitably", saying that it is "fuelling a "two-track Covid-19 pandemic", taking a toll on some of world's most vulnerable countries.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday said that "global failure to share vaccines equitably" is fuelling a "two-track" Covid-19 pandemic, impacting some of world's most vulnerable countries. Taking up the issue of global disparities in distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, WHO said that countries like India and Nepal have suffered because of less doses of the vaccine. "Our global targets are to vaccinate at least 10 per cent of the population of every country by September, at least 40 per cent by the end of the year, and 70 per cent by the middle of next year. These are the critical milestones we must reach together to end the Covid-19 pandemic," WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.