The WHO chief said that efforts should be made to make sure middle and low-income countries are equally protected from the pandemic. He said that the world should not forget the lessons learnt from previous pandemics. India on Saturday launched the world’s largest vaccination drive, with around 3 crore health workers getting the first dose of the jab across the country

Geneva: As the world yet again grapples with huge number cases of coronavirus due to the new mutated variants of the deadly Covid-19 virus, several countries have initiated massive vaccination drives to fight back the microscopic enemy.

India on Saturday launched the world’s largest vaccination drive, with around 3 crore health workers getting the first dose of the jab across the country.

In light of these developments, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged fairness to the access of Covid-19 vaccines, and said he would like to see “vaccination underway in every country in the next 100 days”.

“I want to see vaccination underway in every country in the next 100 days, so that health workers and those at high-risk are protected first,” he said, as per a report by news agency IANS.

Addressing a virtual media conference from Geneva on Friday, the WHO chief said that efforts should be made to make sure middle and low-income countries are equally protected from the pandemic.

He said that high-income countries are disproportionately represented among those that have started vaccinating, and that countries should not forget the lessons learnt from previous pandemics.