The World Health Organization believes that wealthier countries should impose a moratorium on coronavirus revaccination by the end of September, so that poorer countries can at least slightly change the depressing situation with coronavirus vaccinations.
This was stated by Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, General Director.
“And we call on everyone with influence – Olympic athletes, investors, business leaders, faith leaders, and every individual in their own family and community – to support our call for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September,” he said.
WHO experts believe that such a moratorium will probably have to be extended in order to vaccinate enough people around the world until the end of the year.
The organization estimates that global inequalities in access to COVID-19 vaccines have arisen in the world.
“When I issued that challenge in May, high-income countries had administered around 50 doses for every 100 people. Since then, that number has doubled. High-income countries have now administered almost 100 doses for every 100 people. Meanwhile, low-income countries have only been able to administer 1.5 doses for every 100 people, due to lack of supply. We need an urgent reversal, from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries, to the majority going to low-income countries,” WHO Director-General said.
It's worth noting that the following vaccines are allowed in Ukraine: Moderna (USA), Oxford/AstraZeneca (Great Britain and Sweden), Pfizer/BioNTech (USA and Germany), Sinovac (China).
As of August 3, out of 41.4 million people in Ukraine, 3,759,403 people (9.08%) has been vaccinated with one dose, and 2,151,799 (5.20%) are fully vaccinated.