Vaccine Nationalism is Not Good for the World: WHO

WHO cautions against vaccine nationalism as COVID-19 pandemic cannot be defeated in a divided world.

According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, it would be in the interest of wealthier nations to help every country protect itself against the disease.

Ghebreyesus said that vaccine nationalism is not good; it will not help the world, the Guardian reported.

‘For the world to recover faster from the pandemic, it has to recover together because it's a globalized world, and the economies are intertwined.’

"Part of the world or a few countries cannot be a safe haven and recover," Ghebreyesus told the Aspen Security Forum in the US, via video-link from the WHO's headquarters in Geneva.

He also said that Covid-19 could be less when those countries who have the funding committed to this

According to the report, several countries are racing to find a vaccine for coronavirus, which has killed more than 7,00,000 people globally.

The WHO chief also said that the US should "reconsider its position" on its decision to withdraw from the world body.

Source: IANS