Chief Scientist at the WHO, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan says if first-world countries keep on hoarding their excess stock of vaccines, this could lead to new, more virulent variants of the coronavirus, spreading even further and faster. She says this would affect especially low-income countries, where the vaccines are not yet available and whose healthcare systems are already under strain.
The World Health Organization has warned against “a pandemic within a pandemic”, which could be worsened by Vaccine Inequality, currently experienced across the Globe.
