WHO slams Europe’s ‘unacceptably slow’ vaccine rollout
04 April 2021 |
3:32 pm
The World Health Organization has warned that Europe's COVID surge is "more worrying than it has been in months. It also said the European Union's vaccine rollout had been "unacceptably slow."
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