WHO calls for vaccine to be shared 'for public good'

Any coronavirus vaccine should be shared as a public good, the World Health Organization's Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.

"Many leaders have promoted the idea of making any vaccine a global public good, but that should continue to be promoted," Tedros said in a Geneva press conference.

Tedros also expressed concern at the number of cases in the global south, saying of Mexico that the coronavirus "is very much in the upswing" there.

"While the cases here in Geneva are in the single digits, we are seeing an estimating pandemic globally," he added.

Aiming to clear up a point of uncertainty, Tedros said that new mothers with coronavirus can still breast-feed their babies.

"The benefits outweigh the risks," he said.