Delta variant warning from Who: vaccines are lagging behind

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, made a statement about the spread of the Delta variant. He said that the process of sharing vaccines with developed countries, underdeveloped and developing countries, was progressing very slowly.

“This slowness caused the Delta variant to spread“ Ghebreyesus said. This has put millions of lives at risk. Sharing vaccines lags behind variants. The Delta variant has now been detected in at least 98 countries,” he said.

He went on to say, “My call to world leaders is that at least 10 percent of the population in all countries should be vaccinated by the end of September. The reason for this is to protect vulnerable people and health workers. The Delta variant is dangerous, evolving and mutating. The Delta variant is spreading very quickly. The world should share protective masks, gloves, oxygen, Covid-19 testing, drugs and vaccines. To slow the pandemic, 70 percent of all countries ‘ populations must be vaccinated by July next year.”