WHO: Vaccine makers should license technology to overcome 'grotesque' inequity
By Trend
More producers of COVID-19 vaccines should follow AstraZeneca’s lead and license technology to other manufacturers, the World Health Organization’s head said on Monday, as he described continuing vaccine inequity as “grotesque”, Trend reports citing Reuters.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for more manufacturers to adopt this model to boost supplies, including for the COVAX vaccine sharing programme seeking to speed more shots to developing countries.
“The gap between number of vaccines administered in rich countries and the number administered through COVAX is growing and becoming more grotesque every day,” Tedros told a news conference.
“The inequitable distribution of vaccines is not just a moral outrage. It’s also economically and epidemiologically self-defeating.”
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