WHO says countries should not order COVID-19 boosters while others still need vaccines

Rich countries should not be ordering booster shots for their vaccinated populations while other countries have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said on Monday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said deaths were again rising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delta variant was becoming dominant, and many countries had yet to receive enough vaccine doses to protect their health workers. 'The Delta variant is ripping around the world at a scorching pace, driving a new spike in COVID-19 cases and death,' Tedros told a briefing, noting that the highly contagious variant, first detected in India, had now been found in more than 104 countries.