The World Health Organization's (WHO) chief <span style="color: #ff6600;"><a style="color: #ff6600;" href="https://www.who.int/dg/election/tedros/en/">Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus</a></span> stated on August 18 that nations placing their own interests ahead of the others in trying to make sure supplies of a potential coronavirus vaccine are creating the pandemic worse.

"(Acting) strategically and globally is in fact in each country's national interest - no one is safe until everyone is protected," he informed a digital briefing calling for the end to"vaccine nationalism".

<span style="color: #ff6600;"><a style="color: #ff6600;" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/18/903617560/who-chief-urges-nations-to-join-in-preventing-vaccine-nationalism">Ghebreysus stated he'd delivered a letter to all WHO members requesting them to join with the multilateral COVAX vaccine campaign.</a></span>

Over 21.9 million individuals are reported to be infected from the novel coronavirus globally and 772,647 have died, according to a Reuters tally.