And the deployment of vaccines is chronically unequal, with the United States accounting for more than a quarter of the global total and poorer nations lagging far behind wealthier ones. The World Health Organization called for millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses to be donated so every country can start immunising within the first 100 days of 2021. “We are still in the acute phase of the pandemic,” added WHO technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove. – ‘Acute phase of pandemic’ –Rich EU countries are still struggling to get their inoculations into overdrive, prompting angry outbursts from France. Vaccines cannot come quickly enough to Brazil, which is suffering from an outbreak that has now killed more than 300,000 from 12 million infections.

Source: Daily Nation March 27, 2021 06:22 UTC