STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE COVID-19 pandemic is being perpetuated by a "scandalous inequity" in vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday as he set new targets for protecting people in the poorest countries. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that no country should assume that it's "out of the woods", no matter its vaccination rate, as long as the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants spread elsewhere. "The world remains in a very dangerous situation," Tedros told the opening of the annual assembly of health ministers from its 194 member states. "As of today, more cases have…