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The World Health Organization has warned against “a pandemic within a pandemic”, which could be worsened by Vaccine Inequality, currently experienced across the Globe.

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Chief Scientist at the WHO, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan says if first-world countries keep on hoarding their excess stock of vaccines, this could lead to new, more virulent variants of the coronavirus, spreading even further and faster. She says this would affect especially low-income countries, where the vaccines are not yet available and whose healthcare systems are already under strain.

Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia Van Der Vent
Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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