Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the launch of the Strategy to Achieve Global COVID-19 Vaccination by Mid-2022, with the goal of vaccinating 40% of every country's population against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 and 70% of each by mid-2022.At a press briefing, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, laid out the situation: Almost one-third of the world's population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but low-income countries have received less than 0.5% of vaccines.
Fifty-six countries hadn't reached 10% vaccination rates by the end of September "through no fault of their own." The continent of Africa is less than 5% vaccinated."This is not a supply problem; it's an allocation problem," Tedros said, noting