The world is in the midst of its worst Covid crisis so far. It didn't have to be this way As a global vaccine-sharing initiative backed by the World Health Organization rolls out across Africa, some low-income countries get their the first inoculations against coronavirus. Posted: May 3, 2021 9:00 PM Updated: May 3, 2021 9:00 PM Posted By: By Laura Smith-Spark and Nectar Gan, CNN A year ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic was still in its relative infancy, the head of the World Health Organization stressed that a global approach would be the only way out of the crisis. "The way forward is solidarity: solidarity at the national level, and solidarity at the global level," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing in April 2020.