In the world's fight against the coronavirus, just 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccines, with 130 countries yet to receive a single dose.
"At this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community," UN Secretary General António Guterres said during a meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday. The distribution of vaccines has been "wildly uneven and unfair," Guterres declared, and the Group of 20 must come together to form a global vaccine task force to address the issue.
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