GENEVA – Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday, condemning a global failure.
The situation in Africa, where new infections and deaths jumped by nearly 40% last week compared to the previous week, is “so dangerous” as the Delta variant spreads globally, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“Our world is failing, as the global community we are failing,” he told a news conference.
Tedros, who is Ethiopian, chastised unnamed countries for reluctance to share doses with low-income …
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