Vaccinate vulnerable global poor before children in rich countries, WHO says

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urges developed world to donate Covid vaccines to Covax programme

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The WHO has urged wealthy countries to reconsider plans to vaccinate children against Covid-19 and instead to donate doses to poorer nations, while warning that the pandemic's second year looks set to be more deadly.

The World Health Organization's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, voiced outrage that a number of rich countries were now vaccinating children and teenagers while poorer states had barely begun vaccinating health workers and their most vulnerable groups.