‘Just give us the vaccines’, WHO pleads, as poor countries face vaccine shortage

"Our world is failing, as the global community we are failing," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Geneva: Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday (June 25, 2021), condemning a global failure. The situation in Africa, where new infections and deaths jumped by nearly 40% last week compared to the previous week, is "so dangerous" as the Delta variant spreads globally, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "Our world is failing, as the global community we are failing," he told in a news conference.