BRUSSELS — The European Union said Monday it was working to secure a big increase in Covid-19 vaccine supplies to improve its slow roll-out, as the United States denounced what it called a Russian disinformation campaign.
The urgency of the global vaccine push was underlined by Latin America hitting 700,000 pandemic deaths, and Italy alone announcing that its toll had topped 100,000.
Meanwhile, former EU member Britain reopened its schools as a tough lockdown and successful first-jabs program brought daily infection numbers down 90 percent from two months ago.
Nearly a year after first describing Covid-19 as a pandemic, the World Health Organization complained on Monday that s…
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