Dr Tedros said that of the 4.8 billion vaccine doses delivered to date globally, 75 per cent have gone to only 10 countries, while vaccine coverage in Africa is at less than 2 per cent.
"Vaccine injustice and vaccine nationalism" increase the risk of more contagious variants emerging, Dr Tedros said.
"The virus will get the chance to circulate in countries with low vaccination coverage, and the delta variant could evolve to become more virulent, and at the same time more potent variants could also emerge," he said.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told the news conference that Hungary has 8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in storage, and that the Central European country has donated more than 1.5 million doses to other countries.
Dr Tedros thanked Hungary for making those donations, adding that "We hope that you will do more, because no-one is safe until everyone is safe".
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for pause on COVID vaccine booster rollout
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