Vaccine inequity will cost the world trillions of dollars, WHO Foundation warns

March 16, 2022

The CEO of the WHO Foundation has told CNBC that the global economy will lose “trillions of dollars” if more Covid-19 vaccines aren’t delivered worldwide.

Anil Soni, who became the Foundation’s first CEO in January 2021, said “the governments of Europe and the West have a clear obligation to donate excess doses and to put money on the table to buy the vaccines, the volumes necessary to deliver to 70% of the world’s population this year.”

The World Health Organization has set a target for 70% of the global population to be vaccinated by mid-2022.

Read more at NBC News.

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