Many countries were forced to suspend the COVID-19 vaccination program, according to WHO.
On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that many countries were forced to suspend the COVID-19 vaccination program because of this reason.
According to the World Health Organization, a huge number of poorer countries have had to suspend their COVID-19 vaccination programs because of lack of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
The shortage of COVID-19 vaccine doses often mean people who have received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine have to wait too long before they can get their second dose.
“We have a huge number of countries that have had to suspend their rollout of their second doses of vaccine. If I remember correctly, it’s over 30 or 40 countries that could have been targeted for second doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, for example, who will not be able to do that,” said Bruce Aylward, the World Health Organization’s frontman for the international COVAX scheme which provided COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries.
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The countries affected by the said problem, according to the WHO expert, were spread throughout the Indian subcontinent, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
He added that countries around India had been “particularly hit hard” and faced “a severe wave of disease”.
The Serum Institute of India (SII) was supposed to be the backbone of COVAX’s supply chain, but India restricted exports to combat its own devastating surge.
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