The head of the World Health Organization says the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases is a result of the unequal distribution of vaccines. Speaking at the First International Conference on Public Health in Africa, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that it has been just over a year since the first COVID-19 vaccines began to be administered. He said, "A year ago, we all hoped that by now vaccines would be helping us all emerge from the long, dark tunnel of the pandemic. But he said, "the inequitable distribution of vaccines has been a failure for humanity." He said, "In the past 10 weeks, COVAX has shipped more vaccines than in the first nine months of the year combined."

Source: The North Africa Journal December 18, 2021 18:39 UTC