The world is in the early stages of another wave of Covid-19 infections and death, warns World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
He said this while addressing the International Olympic Committee members in Tokyo ahead of the games opening on Friday.
Tedros called on the world’s leading economies to step up by sharing vaccines. He says they should fund global efforts to make them more accessible and incentivizing companies to scale up vaccine production.
“The pandemic is a test and the world is failing,” he says.
“This is not just a moral outrage, it’s also epidemiologically and economically self-defeating,” Tedros says.
He adds that the longer the pandemic drags on, the more socioeconomic turmoil it will bring.
