"VACCINE equity is the challenge of our time," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), told a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council. "And we are failing," he said in his opening remarks at the gathering.

Earlier, Group of Seven leaders wrote a letter of support declaring that wealthier countries should pay the cost to vaccinate low and middle-income countries.

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