In a wide-ranging multilingual speech to the European Parliament in Brussels, the UN chief underscored the need to ramp up vaccinations globally. “The pandemic is causing more deaths today than a year ago. And vaccines are our only way out of this crisis. They must be considered as a global public good, available and affordable to all,” he said. (Source: UN) Additional information World Bank and African Union Team Up to Support Rapid Vaccination for Up to 400 million People in Africa. (Source: World Bank)