WHO: Make more vaccines available to avoid “a pandemic within a pandemic”

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Covid-10 vaccine shortfall

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

Chief Scientist at the WHO, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan says if first-world countries keep on hoarding their excess stock of Covid-19 vaccines it could lead to the new, more-virulent variants of the virus spreading even further and faster.

Swaminathan says this would affect especially low-income countries, where the vaccines are not yet available and whose health-care systems are already under strain.

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