Share COVID jabs instead of vaccinating kids: WHO
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The World Health Organization has urged rich countries to reconsider plans to vaccinate children and instead donate COVID-19 shots to the COVAX scheme that shares them with poorer nations.
The WHO is hoping more countries will follow France and Sweden in donating shots to COVAX after inoculating their priority populations to help address a gulf in vaccination rates.
Canada and the United States are among countries that have authorised vaccines for use in adolescents in recent weeks. However, a WHO official said talks with Washington on sharing doses were under way.
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The World Health Organization has urged rich countries to reconsider plans to vaccinate children and instead donate COVID-19 shots to the COVAX scheme that shares them with poorer nations.
The WHO is hoping more countries will follow France and Sweden in donating shots to COVAX after inoculating their priority populations to help address a gulf in vaccination rates.
Canada and the United States are among countries that have authorised vaccines for use in adolescents in recent weeks. However, a WHO official said talks with Washington on sharing doses were under way.
“I understand why some countries want to vaccinate their children and adolescents, but right now I urge them to reconsider and to instead donate vaccines to #COVAX,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual meeting in Geneva on Friday.
1 2021-03-16 08:11:18Xinhua
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Officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the use of e-certificate for COVID-19 vaccination is a potentially very useful instrument, but warned about its use, notably for international travels, because of the tremendously iniquitous situation in the world.
Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO Health Emergencies Program, explained at a virtual press conference on Monday that electronic certificates for vaccination could be a very useful instrument for governments to use for managing the registration of vaccination in the country.
However, he added that the use of such certificates for travels across the world might not be fair, since the likelihood of one being offered a vaccine has very much to do with the country you live in, as vaccination for now is not widely available and is inequitably distributed throughout the world.