With the emergence of Omicron, a new variant from South Africa, the focus of the World Health Organization and the party members has shifted to a global treaty. The inequities of vaccine distribution is the cause of new variants to emerge and not the inadequacies of South Africa’s efforts. The Director-General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, praises South Africa in detecting, sequencing and reporting the details of the new variant and calls their inability to gain access to vaccine stocks as unethical, reminding the world that 80% of the global stocks are with the G20 and low-income countries have only received 0.6% thus far.
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