WHO calls for world leaders and pharmaceutical chiefs to end 'disgraceful' global vaccine inequality

WHO's Bruce Aylward said the world should be 'disgusted' with the imbalance in available tools to fight the pandemic and appealed to the wealthiest nations to focus on helping all countries vaccinate at least 10% of their populations by September. Only 1.1% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose, due to a lack of supplies. 'I can't help but think: if we had tried to withhold vaccines from parts of the world, could we have made it any worse than it is today?' Aylward, senior adviser to the WHO director-general and head of the ACT Accelerator initiative, which is aimed at providing pandemic resources to developing countries.