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World on the brink of ‘catastrophic moral failure’ due to unfair vaccine rollouts, WHO chief says

January 18, 2021

Via: CNBC
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The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines is at “serious risk.”

Warning of a “catastrophic moral failure,” WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “the recent emergence of rapidly-spreading variants makes the rapid and equitable rollout of vaccines all the more important.”

But he added that this distribution could easily become “another brick in the wall for inequality between the world’s haves and have-nots.”

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