World Health Organization has welcomed the COVID-19 vaccine-sharing announcements coming out of the Group of Seven summit but says “we need more, and we need them faster.” U.S.
urges WHO to begin 2nd phase of COVID-19 origin investigation in China “The challenge, I said to the G-7 leaders, was that to truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70 per cent of the world’s population by the time the G-7 meets again in Germany next year,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Saturday at the summit in southwest England.“To do that, we need 11 billion doses,” Tedros said, adding that it was “essential” for countries to temporarily waive intellectual property protections for coronavirus.