COVID live updates: WHO calls for vaccine makers to share technology with other manufacturers

WHO’s plea to vaccine producers to address ‘grotesque’ inequalities 

Let’s kick it off with a call from the World Health Organization (WHO), which wants vaccine producers to licence their vaccine technology to other producers. 

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is really concerned about the inequality between rich and poor countries.

“In January, I said that the world was on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure unless urgent steps were taken to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines.

“We have the means to avert this failure, but it is shocking how little has been done to avert it.

“The gap between the number of vaccines administered in rich countries and the number of vaccines administered through COVAX is growing…