(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 20 - The United Kingdom should now donate vaccines to developing countries that need them and not wait for them to have surplus doses.
The new head of the WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, told the BBC, underlining that it is "in the interest" of rich countries to ensure that all countries have access to vaccines.
The reaction of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala concerns what the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said during the G7 held yesterday in virtual form and chaired by London, who promised a donation to poor countries of the vaccine doses that will result in surplus in the context of the British vaccination campaign . A "welcome" commitment Okonjo-Iweala said to BBC Radio 4's 'Today Program', but he also specified: "I don't think we should wait for the unsurplus time. I believe that any donations must be made now. The reason is simple: it is in the it is in the interest of rich countries as well as poor countries that all have equal access "to vaccines. (HANDLE).
