 The World Health Organization has called on the world's 20 richest nations holding a summit next week to step up the nations of COVID-19 doses to the global south where vaccinations lag. Director General Tedros Gibraso told a news conference that the countries must fulfill their dose-sharing commitments immediately. Now World Health Organization Ambassador for Global Health Finance Gordon Brown said that if the world's richest countries cannot mobilize for a vaccine airlift to develop in countries, an epidemiological and economic dereliction of duty will shame all of them. There is still a shortfall of 500 million vaccine doses to reach the WHO's 40% vaccination target in all countries by year-end while 240 million doses are lying unused in the west according to Brown. It's clear what needs to happen. The countries that have already reached the 40% target, which includes all the G20 countries, must give their spot in the vaccine delivery queue to COVAX and ABAT. The G20 countries must fulfill their dose-sharing commitments immediately. Manufacturers must prioritize and fulfill their contracts with COVAX and ABAT as a matter of urgency and be far more transparent about what's going where. If at the G20 summit in Italy, the world's richest countries cannot mobilize an extraordinary and expedited airlift of doses to the unvaccinated and unprotected of the world and do so starting immediately, an epidemiological, economic and ethical dereliction of duty will shame us all. I think what we're seeing is, in essence, communities going back to what people consider as normal. Restrictions have been progressively lifted in many countries in stages over the last number of months. Most of those restrictions are now not in place anymore.