Vaccines effective against variants but overseas travel still not safe: WHO
By AFP
21 May 2021 |
10:29 am
Dr Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization's director for Europe, tells a press conference that international travel should continue to be avoided due to the risk of the pandemic resurging in the region, but he stresses that authorised vaccines do work against variants of concern.
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