WHO asks rich countries to donate 10 million vaccine doses to poorer ones

WHO asks rich countries to donate 10 million vaccine doses to poorer The World Health Organization (WHO) asked rich countries on Friday to donate 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations. Lexi Lonas TheHill

The World Health Organization (WHO) asked rich countries on Friday to donate 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations.

“COVAX is ready to deliver, but we can’t deliver vaccines we don’t have. Bilateral deals, export bans and vaccine nationalism have caused distortions in the market with gross inequities in supply and demand,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference, Reuters reported.

“Ten million doses is not much, and it’s not nearly enough,” Tedros added.

Poorer countries have struggled with obtaining the vaccine. 

Richer ones such as the United States, China and others have been able to vaccinate millions of citizens in order to curb the coronavirus. 

The U.S. has signaled it will not be sending vaccines to most other countries until every American is able to be vaccinated, though the Biden administration has announced a deal to share with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico. ...