GENEVA, Switzerland — UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday branded rich nations' vaccine hogging as immoral and stupid, saying choking off poorer countries' access to jabs risked undermining their own defences against the pandemic. The UN health agency said 1.5 billion vaccine doses were now being manufactured every month — with less than one week's production needed to reach the 10 percent target. "Vaccine inequality is aiding and abetting the Covid-19 pandemic," Guterres told a virtual press conference alongside Tedros. "So not to have equitable distribution of vaccines is not only a question of being immoral: it is also a question of being stupid." 'Precipice of failure'Tedros said more than 6.4 billion vaccine doses had now been administered, and almost a third of the world's population was fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Source: Philippine Star October 07, 2021 23:26 UTC