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WHO urges to halt booster shots for rest of the year
3 years, 4 months ago

WHO urges to halt booster shots for rest of the year

India TV News  

Rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines should refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year and make the doses available for poorer countries, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday, doubling down on an earlier appeal for a “moratorium" on boosters that has largely been ignored. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said …

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July 12, 2021 coronavirus news
3 years, 5 months ago

July 12, 2021 coronavirus news

CNN  

World Health Organization leaders asked wealthy countries on Monday to hold off on giving booster doses of coronavirus vaccines to their residents before people in other countries can even get their first doses. “Some countries and regions are actually ordering millions of booster doses before other countries have had supplies to vaccinate their health workers and most vulnerable,” WHO Director-General …

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WHO condemns global failure in vaccine supply as poor countries go wanting
3 years, 6 months ago

WHO condemns global failure in vaccine supply as poor countries go wanting

India Today  

Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from Covid-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday, condemning a global failure. The situation in Africa, where new infections and deaths jumped by nearly 40% last week compared to the previous week, is "so dangerous" as …

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UN: No vaccine to be endorsed before it’s safe and effective
4 years, 4 months ago

UN: No vaccine to be endorsed before it’s safe and effective

Associated Press  

LONDON — The head of the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency will not recommend any COVID-19 vaccine before it is proved safe and effective, even as Russia and China have started using their experimental vaccines before large studies have finished and other countries have proposed streamlining authorization procedures. He said newly developed Ebola vaccines helped end the …

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