geneva the who warned monday that covid19 was moving faster than the vaccines and said the g7s vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations was simply not enoughglobal health leaders also warned the pledge was too little too late with more than 11 billion shots neededfaced with outrage over disparities in jab access the group of seven industrialised powers pledged during a weekend summit in britain to take their total dose donations to more than one billion up from 130 million promised in februaryi welcome the announcement that g7 countries will donate 870 million new vaccine doses primarily through covax world health organization chief tedros adhanom ghebreyesus told journaliststhis is a big help but we need more and we need them faster right now the virus is moving faster than the global distribution of vaccinesmore than 10 thousand people are dying every day these communities need vaccines and they need them now not next yearwhile people in many wealthy nations are enjoying a return to a sense of normalcy thanks to high vaccination rates the shots remain scarce in less welloff parts of the worldin terms of doses administered the imbalance between the g7 and lowincome countries as defined by the world bank is 73 to onemany of the donated g7 doses will be filtered through covax a global body charged with ensuring equitable vaccine distributionrun by the who the gavi vaccine alliance and cepi the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovations it has to date shipped more than 87 million vaccine doses to 131 countries far fewer than anticipatedthe who wants at least 70 percent of the worlds population vaccinated by the next g7 meeting in germany next yearto do that we need 11 billion doses the g7 and g20 can make this happen said tedrosmedical charity doctors without borders questioned how sincere the g7 was in pursuing vaccine equitywe need to see more clarity around the actual number of doses donated and exactly how long its going to take to translate their pledges into real impact and access the medical charitys hu yuanqiong told afpas well as dose sharing the g7 antipandemic battle plan includes commitments to avert future pandemics slashing the time taken to develop and licence vaccines to under 100 days reinforcing global surveillance and strengthening the whobut observers voiced scepticism at their willingness to follow through on the last point especiallyi will believe that point when the contributions to who are increased tweeted ilona kickbusch founding director and chair of the global health centre in genevaothers stressed the need to quickly resolve the issue of covid vaccine patent protections to boost productionfullfledged negotiations towards a possible suspension of intellectual property protections for covid vaccines as well as other medical tools needed to battle the pandemic have just begun at the world trade organization after months of contentious debateg7 leaders say they want to vaccinate the world by the end of next year but their actions show they care more about protecting the