WHO urged not to revaccine against COVID-19 until the end of the year

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Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus urged not to be vaccinated again yet / Photo: Collage: Today

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus, who predicted new wave of coronavirus, once again urged rich countries with large supplies of COVID-19 vaccine to stop booster vaccinations by the end of the year.

About this he stated at a press conference on Wednesday, Axios reports.

“I will not be silent when companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think that the world’s poor should be content with vaccine leftovers,” Gebreisus said.

He said he was shocked after the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations said that rich countries now have enough doses to do both booster and vaccinations in countries with a deficit.

“In fact, manufacturers and high-income countries have long had the opportunity not only to vaccinate their own priority groups, but also simultaneously support vaccination of the same groups in all countries,” said the head of WHO.

The publication notes that Gebreyesus’s statement came at a time when the administration of US President Joe Biden announced a revaccination against COVID, and the global inequality in vaccines persists.

Earlier, the WHO director-general called for a moratorium on revaccination until the end of September.

Note, WHO and previously urged not to be vaccinated with a third dose of COVID-19as the coronavirus vaccine is in short supply in developing countries, which received only 20% of the doses.

We also reported that the World Health Organization predict another 236 thousand deaths from coronavirus by the end of the year due to stagnant vaccination rates and low vaccination rates in poorer countries.

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