COVID-19 pandemic is being perpetuated by a “scandalous inequity” in vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday as he set new targets for protecting people in the poorest countries.WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that no country should assume that it’s “out of the woods,” no matter its vaccination rate, as long as the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants spread elsewhere.
COVID-19 death tolls could be up to three times above official counts, WHO says “The world remains in a very dangerous situation,” Tedros told the opening of the annual assembly of health ministers from its 194 member states.“As of today, more cases have been reported so far this year than in the whole of.