Poorer nations have administered just 0.3% of coronavirus jabs, says WHO chief

The WHO said just 0.3% of all vaccines administered so far were given to people in low-income countries (PA)

More than one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered globally but 82% of them were given in high and upper-middle income countries, according to the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said just 0.3% of all vaccines administered so far were given to people in low-income countries.