WHO says countries should not order COVID-19 boosters while others still need vaccines

FILE PHOTO: People wait after receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine during a mass vaccination program for people over 18 years of age at a gym in Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico July 10, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) -Rich countries should not be ordering booster shots for their vaccinated populations while other countries have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said deaths were again rising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delta variant was becoming dominant, and many countries had yet to receive enough vaccine doses to protect their health workers.