“While some countries have had enough personal protective equipment, tests and vaccines to stockpile throughout this pandemic, many countries do not have enough to meet basic baseline needs or modest targets, which no rich country would have been satisfied with,” Ghebreyesus warned, and emphasizing that “vaccine inequity is a killer of people and jobs and it undermines a global economic recovery.”

Ghebreyesus underlined that “Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Omicron reflect that in part because of low vaccination rates, we’ve created the perfect conditions for the emergence of virus variants.”

He also recalled that, last week, the highest number of COVID-19 cases were reported so far in the pandemic. (ILKHA)