The organisation’s specialists insisted that the current vaccines offer very high protection against hospitalisation and death for all variants, including the omicron, so the priority should be to vaccinate as many people as possible in all countries.

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In the medium term, it may be necessary to develop vaccines that prevent infection.

“At this time, WHO has no intention of advising a change in the composition of vaccines,” said Dr Michael Ryan, the organisation’s director of emergencies.

Ryan insisted that more information still needs to be gathered and an “open and transparent debate” needs to be had based on “global needs” so that it is not an individual decision by any one company that “dictates what the world needs.

The head of the Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, warned that “unless we change the current model, we will enter a second, even more, destructive phase of vaccine inequality.

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