WHO calls for an end to vaccine-nationalism

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The World Health Organization says a lot more needs to be done to tackle the issue of vaccine nationalism, or vaccine apartheid, to boost global efforts to defeat Covid-19.

Director General at the Organization, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus spoke during World Health Day commemorations this week and said there are still too many health-care workers, across the Globe, who have not yet been vaccinated against the virus.

Ghebreyesus says he is encouraged to learn that 190 countries have already started their vaccination campaigns.

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