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WHO warns that the worlds poorest must not be ‘trampled in the stampede’ for Covid-19 vaccines
A nurse preparing to give a patient a vaccine

THE world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations must not be “trampled in the stampede” for Covid-19 vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. 

WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that successful vaccines must be distributed equitability and called for $4.3 billion (£3.2bn) in funding for a sharing scheme. 

The Covax scheme aims to deliver two billion doses to more than 90 low-income countries by the end of 2021, but is currently struggling to raise the funds.

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