Updated Jan 19, 2021 | 13:46 IST
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has warned that a failure to create mechanisms that ensure equitable access of vaccines will only prolong what is already an unprecedented global health crisis. World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Photo Credit: AP
Key Highlights
The WHO chief raised concerns over vaccine manufacturers prioritising regulatory approval in high-income nations (where opportunities are most lucrative), rather than working with WHO
The Director-General has consistently emphasised and re-emphasised that if governments approached the pandemic solely from positions of self-interest that it would come at a grave, but more importantly, avoidable human and economic cost