WHO's Tedros says COVID-19 vaccine inequity creates 'two-track pandemic'

World 09:59 PM - 2021-06-07

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Glaring COVID-19 vaccine inequality has created a "two-track pandemic" with Western countries protected and poorer nations still exposed, World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, renewing pleas for shot donations.

 

"Increasingly, we see a two-track pandemic," Tedros told reporters during a press conference from Geneva. "Six months since the first COVID-19 vaccines were administered, high-income countries have administered almost 44% of the world's doses.

 

Low-income countries have administered just 0.4%. The most frustrating thing about this statistic is that it hasn't changed in months."

 

 

 

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