Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles For some countries, it's a time to celebrate. This was a 54 year old nurse in Sao Paulo. She became the first person to be vaccinated in Brazil. But in other parts of the world, if you are being inoculated, the head of the World Health Organization is urging countries and manufacturers to spread doses more fairly around the world, criticizing what he called a me first approach, leaving the world's poorest and most vulnerable at risk. I need to be blunt. The world is on the brink off a catastrophe, moral failure and the price off. This failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries, Tadros said. The prospects for equitable distribution were at serious risk just as it's Kovacs vaccine sharing scheme aimed to start distributing inoculations next month even and they speak the language off equitable access. Some countries and companies continue to prioritize bilateral deals, going around Kovacs, driving up prices and attempting to jump to the front off the cube. This is wrong. 44 bilateral deals were signed last year and at least 12 have already been signed this year, he warns. Thes deals would create the scenario Kovacs hoped to avoid. With hoarding a chaotic market and uncoordinated response and continued social and economic disruption, The global scramble for shots has intensified ISMM, or infectious, various variants circulate. Tedros said more than 39 million vaccine doses had Bean administered in 49 higher income countries. Just 25 had been given in one poor country.
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