The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is attending a press conference organized by the Association of United Nations Correspondents in Geneva (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak in WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 3 July 2020.
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The World Health Organization once again called on world leaders to stop administering Covid-19 booster for at least another month to give poorer nations the opportunity to inoculate more populations with the first doses.
According to the WHO, more than 5 billion vaccines against Covid have been administered worldwide, and 75% of them are administered in just ten countries.
“That is why I have called for a moratorium on drivers, at least until the end of this month, to allow countries that are lagging behind to catch up,” WHO Director-General Tedros said on Wednesday. Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The director of the World Health Agency said some high-income countries have an adult vaccination rate of 50%, while low-income countries, including many in Africa, still have vaccination rates for adults. to adults less than 2%. The United States has completely vaccinated more than 52% of its population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Additional doses may be required for those with a compromised immune system or impaired immunity, “but for now, we don’t want widespread use of reinforcements for fully vaccinated healthy people,” Tedros said.
According to the CDC, nearly 1 million vaccines against the Covid-19 vaccine have already been administered in the U.S. since health officials authorized the administration of additional shots of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to people with a weakened immune system.
President Joe Biden said the United States plans to widely distribute Covid’s booster shots starting the week of Sept. 20, pending authorization from the Food and Drug Administration and CDC scientists.