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WHO urges rich countries to delay vaccination of children and adolescents to “donate more doses” to poor countries

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The WHO’s Dr Tedros has warned that the second year of the pandemic is likely to be deadlier than the first

The richest nations should postpone their plans to vaccinate children and adolescents against COVID-19 and instead donate those doses to countries with fewer resources.

This is said by the director of general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who on Friday urged the international community to provide more vaccines to COVAX, the global plan to distribute doses among poor countries.

And it is that the international distribution of vaccines against covid-19 continues to be extremely uneven.

Since the first drugs were approved last December, wealthier countries have bought most of the supply, rushing to immunize most of their population.

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