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WHO warns against blanket boosters, as vaccine inequity persists

Staff Writer Dec 23, 2021

(United Nations News) Blanket COVID-19 vaccine booster programmes could prolong the pandemic and increase inequity, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday. “No country can boost its way out of…
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Omicron COVID variant underlines need for global ‘pandemic treaty’

Staff Writer Nov 30, 2021

(United Nations News) The emergence of the threatening new Omicron variant shows how important it is for the world to end the current “cycle of panic and neglect” over the COVID-19 pandemic, said the head of the World Health Organization…
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