WHO calls for moratorium on booster vaccine shots through September, citing global disparity
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The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on booster shots of coronavirus vaccines through at least September as poorer countries struggle to access the shots, even for high-risk populations such as health-care workers and the elderly.
“We cannot and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a Wednesday news conference, in an escalation of the health organization’s pushback against disparities it has called immoral. Tedros said the world is not on track to meet the WHO’s goal of 10 percent vaccination coverage in every country by the end of September.
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