WHO Urges Countries to Hold Off Giving COVID-19 Booster Shots Through September

WHO Urges Countries to Hold Off Giving COVID-19 Booster Shots Through September
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gestures during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 2, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
Updated:

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to hold off on giving COVID-19 booster shots through September so poorer nations can provide citizens with their first dose of the vaccine.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that some low-income countries, including many in Africa, have less than 2 percent of their adult populations fully vaccinated.

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