While some countries have already launched a vaccination booster campaign against Covid-19, the World Health Organization said yesterday that the booster doses are not yet necessary according to current scientific data. Moreover, the WHO considers that it is not ” moral and ethical »To consider a third dose in rich countries when poor countries do not yet have a first injection.

The World Health Organization (WHO) denounced, Wednesday, August 18, 2021, expressed itself about a possible recall campaign against vaccination against Covid-19 in rich countries. At a press conference in Geneva, WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan explained that “ current data does not indicate that recalls are necessary ».

According to her, it is necessary ” wait for science to tell us when boosters are needed, what groups of people and which vaccines need boosters “. In addition, WHO recommends waiting until areas with low vaccination rates achieve full vaccination coverage before launching booster campaigns in countries where the majority of the population is already vaccinated.

While a recall campaign has already been launched in some countries such as Israel and soon in the United States (whose health authorities announced yesterday, the launch of a recall campaign for all Americans from September 20), WHO considers that it is not ” moral and ethical “To consider a third dose in rich countries” when the rest of the world is waiting for their first injection ».

For WHO Emergency Director Mike Ryan, proposing a third dose of Covid-19 vaccine now amounts to “ handing out extra life jackets to people who already have one, while we let others drown without a life jacket “. As for the adviser to the Director-General of WHO, Bruce Aylward, he declared that today there are “enough vaccines in the world” but that these ” do not go to the right places, in the right order “. Faced with this situation, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on leaders to look beyond “ narrow nationalist goals ».