WHO calls unequal access to vaccines "patch on collective conscience"

"The shocking inequality in the global distribution of vaccines is a stain on our collective conscience," TASS quoted him as saying.

Ghebreyesus said more than 5.5 billion doses of vaccines have already been administered globally, "but almost 80% of them" are in upper-middle-income countries.

He also noted that WHO opposes the use of booster doses of the vaccine.

Earlier, the WHO named the number of cases of coronavirus in the world.