On Sept. 14, 2021, the WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and a group of global health leaders issued an urgent call for vaccine equity globally and in Africa in particular. The leaders stressed that the worst pandemic in the last hundred years will not end unless and until, there is genuine global cooperation on vaccine supply and access.

They also reiterated the WHOﾒs global vaccination target for 70% of the population of all countries to be vaccinated by mid- 2022.