Growing global vaccine gap ‘grotesque’: WHO
By AFP
24 March 2021 |
11:10 am
The World Health Organization blasts the growing gap between the number of coronavirus vaccines administered in rich and poor countries, branding the inequity a global "moral outrage".
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