The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
"WHO is calling for a moratorium on boosters until at least the end of September to enable at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. To make that happen, we need everyone's cooperation, especially the handful of countries and companies that control the global supply of vaccines," he said. US vaccinations reach highest level in a month.
While Tedros said he understood the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant,"we cannot and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected." Read MoreIn May, Tedros called for global support to enable countries to vaccinate at least 10% of their populations by September.
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