UN CHIEF GIVES WORLD ‘F IN ETHICS’ ON VACCINE ROLLOUT

United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres reprimanded the world on Tuesday for the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, describing it as an “obscenity” and giving the globe an “F in Ethics.” Addressing the annual UN gathering of world leaders in New York, Guterres, pictured, said images from some parts of the world of expired and unused vaccines in the garbage told “the tale of our times” — with the majority of the wealthier world immunized while more than 90 per cent of Africa has not even received one dose. “This is a moral indictment of the state of our world. It is an obscenity. We passed the science test. But we are getting an F in Ethics,” Guterres told the General Assembly. Out of 5.7 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines administered around the world, only two per cent have been in Africa.