It is leading the Covax scheme which is designed to get jabs to poorer nations. “There remains a shocking imbalance in the global distribution of vaccines,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference on Friday. “We hope to be able to catch up during April and May,” Dr Tedros said. He also criticised countries that have sought their own vaccine deals outside of the Covax scheme. “Scarcity of supply is driving vaccine nationalism.”Earlier this year, Dr Tedros warned that the world was facing a “catastrophic moral failure” over vaccine inequality.

Source: The Nation April 10, 2021 09:00 UTC