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World Health Organization – Health leaders have called for urgent global cooperation on COVID-19 vaccine supply and access, particularly in Africa where only 2% of total doses worldwide have been administered.

The longer vaccine inequity persists, the more the virus will keep circulating and changing, the longer the social and economic disruption will continue, and the higher the chances that more variants will emerge that render vaccines less effective.” 

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO

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