The World Health Organization Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 booster shots until the end of next month to address a shortfall in vaccines for poorer countries.
More than 80 percent of the world's vaccine supplies have gone to more wealthy countries for less than half the world's population.
Previously, WHO officials have warned that richer countries' desire to only produce vaccines for their own populations could be counterproductive because COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP virus, would still easily spread in poorer countries and then mutate into variants that could breach vaccine protection.
Starting last week, Israel-one of the most vaccinated countries in the world-is also offering a third shot of the Pfizer CCP virus vaccine for citizens aged 60 and older.
Pfizer announced in July that it and its vaccine partner, BioNTech, would seek clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to distribute a booster shot.
In other countries, Thai and Indonesian authorities recently stated that they'd give health workers booster shots made in Europe or the United States after some health workers contracted the CCP virus after getting two doses of the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain authorized Pfizer booster shots for individuals who received another Chinese-made vaccine, known as Sinopharm.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/who-calls-for-halt-to-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots_3933820.html
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