vaccinated to date - poses "severe risks". Gopinath said Group of Seven rich countries had delivered only 14% of the total vaccine doses they had promised, but increasing that to 50% would provide sufficient doses to reach the global target for 2021. "It's not enough to make announcements and pledges.
You have to come through on it," she said, adding that one of the biggest accomplishments of the COVID-19 summit being organized by U.S.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday would be a more systematic way of holding countries accountable. "I think (ending the pandemic) is still a solvable problem and that it can be done, as long as you can get the countries and the vaccine manufacturers to come together and deliver on these targets," she said.